Contextualizebeta

-pedia

suffix

Etymology

Back-formation from encyclopedia.

Definitions

  1. A specialized encyclopedia about the prefixed subject.

    • unicorn + -o- + -pedia → Unicornopedia (“an encyclopedia about unicorns”)

  2. A general encyclopedia in the structure described by the prefix.

    • kid + -pedia → Kidpedia (“an encyclopedia for young children”)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -pedia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA