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compendium
compendium:
see
ponder
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.).