enchiridion
See also: ἐγχειρίδιον
English
Etymology
Either via Latin enchīridion or directly, from Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion, “handbook, manual”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + a neuter suffix.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛn.kaɪˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/
- Hyphenation: en‧chi‧ri‧di‧on
- Rhymes: -ɪdiən
Noun
enchiridion (plural enchiridions or enchiridia) (archaic)
- A handbook or manual.
- 2009, Thomas Keymer, The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, page 27:
- If they queried the predictabilities and completions of story, Swift and Sterne were yet more suspicious of the totalisations and regularities of imposed rules, institutes, universal systems, cyclopaedias and enchiridions.
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛŋ.kʰiːˈrɪ.di.ɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eŋ.kiˈriː.d̪i.on]
Noun
enchīridion n (genitive enchīridiī); second declension
- a manual
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | enchīridion | enchīridia |
| genitive | enchīridiī | enchīridiōrum |
| dative | enchīridiō | enchīridiīs |
| accusative | enchīridion | enchīridia |
| ablative | enchīridiō | enchīridiīs |
| vocative | enchīridion | enchīridia |
References
- “enchiridion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- enchiridion in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016