Word Origin Summary

Compendium is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• compendi

  Catalan · borrowed from

• compendium

  French · derived from

• kompendium

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• compendioso

  Italian · derived from

• compendio

  Italian · derived from

• kompendium

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• compendium

  English · derived from

• compendiu

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root