encyclopaedia
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See also: encyclopædia
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia, variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.
Pronunciation
Noun
encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae)
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Alternative spelling of encyclopedia
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from a univerbated form of Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “child-rearing, education”). This spelling seems to have been first used by Paul Skalich in 1559, although the spelling encyclopedia goes back to at least 1517, with a work by Johannes Aventinus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /en.ky.klo.pae̯ˈdiː.a/, [ɛŋkʏkɫ̪ɔpäe̯ˈd̪iːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /en.t͡ʃi.klo.peˈdi.a/, [en̠ʲt͡ʃiklopeˈd̪iːä]
Noun
encyclopaedīa f (genitive encyclopaedīae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
All borrowings.
- → Asturian: enciclopedia
- → Catalan: enciclopèdia
- → English: encyclopedia
- → French: encyclopédie
- Haitian Creole: ansiklopedi
- → Turkish: ansiklopedi
- → Galician: enciclopedia
- → Hebrew: אֶנְצִיקְלוֹפֶּדְיָה
- → Italian: enciclopedia
- → Portuguese: enciclopédia
- → Romanian: enciclopedie
- → Spanish: enciclopedia
- Tagalog: ensiklopedya
- → Venetan: ensiclopedia
References
- encyclopaedia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Noun
encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias)
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