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pandect

noun
/ˈpændɛkt/UK/ˈpænˌdɛkt/US

Etymology

Sense 3 (“comprehensive treatise”) is from Latin pandectēs (“book that contains everything, encyclopedia”), from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης (pandéktēs, “encyclopedia”, literally “all-receiver”), from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all’) (from πᾶς (pâs, “all”)) + δέκτης (déktēs, “receiver, recipient”) (from δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to receive”) (from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take; to perceive”)) + -της (-tēs, suffix forming agent nouns)). Sense 1 (“compendium of writings on Roman law”) in the plural form Pandects is from Late Latin pandectae (“the Pandects”), the plural of pandectēs, modelled after (Byzantine) Ancient Greek πανδέκται (pandéktai, “the Pandects”), the plural of πανδέκτης (pandéktēs): see further above.

  1. derived from πανδέκται — “the Pandects”
  2. derived from pandectae — “the Pandects”
  3. derived from *deḱ-✻ — “to take; to perceive”
  4. derived from πανδέκτης — “encyclopedia”
  5. derived from pandectēs — “book that contains everything, encyclopedia”

Definitions

  1. Usually in the plural form Pandects

    Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565).

    • But the juriſprudence of the Pandects is circumſcribed within a period of an hundred years, from the perpetual edict to the death of Severus Alexander: [...]

  2. Also in the plural form pandects

    Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code.

    • Give me the Pandects of the Law Divine, / Such was the Law made Moſes face to ſhine.

  3. A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic

    A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic; specifically (Christianity) a manuscript of the entire Bible.

    • The table of contents which we inſert here will give a juſt idea of the method with which this ſmall pandect of morality is compoſed.
    • At 8.330–2, which will be treated again below, Virgil seems to be offering some guidance about part of this tangle of 'problems' (although he was at the same time a pandect when it came to the Tiber and its nomenclature).

The neighborhood

Derived

pandectist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pandect. 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