encyclopaedia

Borrowed from New Latin encyclopaedia; the English word is an etymologically restored spelling variant of earlier encyclopedia, q.v.

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/, /ɛn-/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːdiə
• Hyphenation: en‧cy‧clo‧pae‧dia

encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias or encyclopaediae)

1. (chiefly UK, Australia) Alternative spelling of encyclopedia.

• encyclopēdīa (New Latin)

Borrowed from a univerbated form of Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā, “education in the circle of arts and sciences”), from ἐγκύκλιος (enkúklios, “circular”) + παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “child-rearing, education”). This spelling seems to have been first used by Paul Skalich in 1559, although the spelling encyclopedia goes back to at least 1517, with a work by Johannes Aventinus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛŋ.ky.kɫɔ.pae̯ˈdiː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [en̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.klo.peˈd̪iː.a]

encyclopaedīa f (genitive encyclopaedīae); first declension

1. (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) encyclopedia

First-declension noun.

• pandectēs

• paedīa

• "encyclopaedia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

encyclopaedia (plural encyclopaedias)

1. encyclopedia