compendium
noun /kəmˈpendiəm/
/kəmˈpendiəm/
(plural compendia
/kəmˈpendiə/
/kəmˈpendiə/
, compendiums)- a collection of facts, drawings and photographs on a particular subject, especially in a bookWord Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin, ‘profit, saving’ (literally ‘what is weighed together’), from compendere, from com- ‘together’ + pendere ‘weigh’.