| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | com·pen·di·um |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k m-p n d -m |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a (-d-)
1. A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2. A list or collection of various items. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Appendix I.
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