- compendium
[compendium 词源字典]
- compendium: see ponder
[compendium etymology, compendium origin, 英语词源] - compendium (n.)
- 1580s, from Latin compendium "a shortening, saving," literally "that which is weighed together," from compendere "to weigh together," from com- "together" (see com-) + pendere "to weigh" (see pendant). Borrowed earlier as compendi (mid-15c.).