Compendium (noun)
kom-pen-dee-um
A collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject, especially in a book or other publication.
Late 16th century from Latin, ‘profit, saving’ (literally ‘what is weighed together’), from compendere, from com- ‘together’ + pendere ‘weigh’.
Example sentences
“She’d collected a compendium of information.”
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