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encyclopedia

noun
/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdi.ə/UK/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpidi.ə/US/ənˌsəɪkləˈpidi.ə/CA

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Ancient Greek ἐν (en) Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-) Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios) Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos) Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der. Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs) Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō) Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā) Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)bor. New Latin encyclopaedīalbor. English encyclopedia Borrowed from New Latin encyclopēdīa, encyclopaedīa (“general education”), a univerbated form of Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “childrearing; education”) (q.v.). Nearly all modern English usage of the word was influenced by the scope and format of the French Encyclopédie by Diderot et al. (see quotation).

  1. derived from ἐγκύκλιος
  2. derived from ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ — “education in the circle of arts and sciences”
  3. borrowed from encyclopēdīa, encyclopaedīa — “general education”

Definitions

  1. A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles…

    A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.

    • I only use the library for the encyclopedia, as we’ve got most other books here.
    • My old encyclopedia has been gathering dust on the shelf for the past decade.
    • The Encyclopedia which we are presenting to the public is, as its title declares, the work of a society of men of letters. Were we not of their number, we might venture to affirm that they are all favorably known or worthy of being so.

  2. Similarly comprehensive works in other formats.

    • Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
    • The ancient Mesopotamians never got to write an encyclopedia on stone.
    • To gain market share, Microsoft gave away its CD-ROM encyclopedia with many new computers, a strategy similar to those it has used in other areas.

  3. The circle of arts and sciences (see Etymology)

    The circle of arts and sciences (see Etymology); a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch thereof.

    • His life's work is a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.
    • I have no idea how to build this model railroad, so I'm gonna look it up on Trainpedia, the encyclopedia for all things model train.
    • Daniel Bukszpan presents for your viewing and reading pleasure, The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal. […] I see my own life reflected in the pages of the Encyclopedia. We all wanted to be bigger than life, but never as big as our heroes.

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Derived

encyclopedial, encyclopedialike, encyclopedian, encyclopedic, encyclopedical, encyclopedic dictionary, encyclopedic fiction, encyclopedist, -pedia, walking encyclopedia, Wikipedia, xenoencyclopedia

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at encyclopedia. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at encyclopedia. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at encyclopedia

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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