encyclopaedia

See also: encyclopædia

English

The 15th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with its yearbook supplements

Etymology

From New Latin encyclopaedia, variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/, /ɛn-/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːdiə
• Hyphenation: en‧cy‧clo‧pae‧dia

Noun

encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae)

1. (chiefly UK, Australia) Alternative spelling of encyclopedia

Latin

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) 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

1. (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) encyclopedia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	encyclopaedīa	encyclopaedīae
Genitive	encyclopaedīae	encyclopaedīārum
Dative	encyclopaedīae	encyclopaedīīs
Accusative	encyclopaedīam	encyclopaedīās
Ablative	encyclopaedīā	encyclopaedīīs
Vocative	encyclopaedīa	encyclopaedīae

Synonyms

• pandectēs

Related terms

• paedīa

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
• → Venetian: 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)

Scots

Noun

encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias)

1. encyclopedia