encyclopaedia

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v. === Pronunciation === (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/, /ɛn-/ Rhymes: -iːdiə Hyphenation: en‧cy‧clo‧pae‧dia === Noun === encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae) Commonwealth standard spelling of encyclopedia. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === encyclopēdīa (New 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 Latin) IPA(key): [ɛŋ.ky.kɫɔ.pae̯ˈdiː.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [en̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.klo.peˈdiː.a] === Noun === encyclopaedīa f (genitive encyclopaedīae); first declension (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) encyclopedia ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== pandectēs ==== Related terms ==== paedīa ==== Descendants ==== === References === "encyclopaedia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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) encyclopedia