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everything you need to know, dressed up in a word that won't fit in your mouth
means A concise but complete summary that gathers the essentials of a larger subject into one handy collection.
from From Latin compendium, meaning 'a saving, a shortening,' literally 'that which is weighed together' — built from com- ('together') and pendere ('to weigh'). It shares a parent with pendant and pension; the root image is of coins on a balance, so a compendium is knowledge weighed out and bundled to save you the effort of carrying the whole load.
- latin roots
- means a weighing-together, a saving of effort
- plural chaos
- both compendiums and compendia are correct
- paradox built-in
- a complete summary of the impossibly vast
- video games love it
- often the in-game catalog of monsters or lore
for instance
britannica encyclopedia — general knowledge compendium spanning 32 volumes at its peak, first published 1768 in scotland