Definitions for compendia

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compendia com·pen·di·um

Spelling: [kuh m-pen-dee-uh m]

IPA: /kəmˈpɛn di əm/

Compendia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 587 anagrams from letters in compendia (acdeimnop).

Definitions for compendia

noun

1. a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise:
2. a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
3. a full list or inventory:

Origin of compendia

1575-85; Latin: gain, saving, shortcut, abridgment, equivalent to com- com- + pend- (stem of pendere to cause to hang down, weigh) + -ium -ium

Examples for compendia

From the 1780s on, cups with brass syringes began to appear in compendia of instruments.

How to Be Inappropriateby Daniel Nester A TMI compendia of inappropriate and humorous nonfiction.

There is a large number of small treatises and compendia of Florentine history of the guide-book description.