Volumes 5–12 of the Encyclopedia Americana (covering topics from Bulgaria to Goethals) in the SUB Library at the University of Göttingen, Germany
From New Latin encyclopēdīa ( “ general education ” ) , variant of encyclopaedīa , a univerbated form of Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ ( enkúklios paideíā , “ education in the circle of arts and sciences ” ) , from Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος ( enkúklios , “ circular ” ) + παιδείᾱ ( paideíā , “ childrearing ; education ” ) , q.v. Nearly all modern English use of the word influenced by the scope and format of Diderot & al.'s French Encyclopédie .
encyclopedia (plural encyclopedias or encyclopediae or encyclopediæ )
A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects , sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
I only use the library for the encyclopedia , as we’ve got most other books here.
His life's work is a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation topics.
Similarly comprehensive works in other formats .
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia anyone can edit.[citation needed]
( dated ) The circle of arts and sciences ; a comprehensive summary of knowledge , or of a branch of knowledge .
The spelling encyclopedia is standard in American English, common in Canadian English, accepted in Australian and International English, and also very common in British English although nonstandard .
comprehensive with on a range of topics
Acehnese: ènsiklopèdia
Afrikaans: ensiklopedie (af)
Albanian: enciklopedi (sq) f
Alemannic German: Enzyklopädie
Amharic: መዝገበ ዕውቀት ( mäzgäbä ʿəwḳät )
Arabic: مَوْسُوعَة (ar) f ( mawsūʕa ) , دَائِرَة مَعَارِف f ( dāʔirat maʕārif )
Moroccan Arabic: موسوعة ( mawsūʕa )
Armenian: հանրագիտարան (hy) ( hanragitaran )
Asturian: enciclopedia f
Azerbaijani: qamus , ensiklopediya (az) , biliklik ( South Azerbaijani )
Arabic: قاموس ( qāmūs )
Bakhtiari: دونسمندنامه ( dunismandnāma )
Baluchi: زانتنامہ ( zāntnāma ) , زانتگرد ( zántgird )
Basque: entziklopedia (eu)
Belarusian: энцыклапе́дыя f ( encyklapjédyja ) , энцыкляпэ́дыя f ( encykljapédyja )
Bengali: বিশ্বকোষ (bn) ( biśśokōś ) এনসাইক্লোপিডিয়া ( enośaiklōpiḍiẏa )
Brahui: zántgird
Breton: holloueziadur (br)
Bulgarian: енциклопе́дия (bg) f ( enciklopédija )
Burmese: စွယ်စုံကျမ်း (my) ( cwaicumkyam: )
Carpathian Rusyn: енціклопе́дія f ( enciklopédija )
Catalan: enciclopèdia (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 百科全書 / 百科全书 ( baak3 fo1 cyun4 syu1 ) , 百科事典 ( baak3 fo1 si6 din2 )
Mandarin: 百科全書 / 百科全书 (zh) ( bǎikēquánshū ) , 百科事典 (zh) ( bǎikēshìdiǎn )
Chuvash: энциклопеди ( entsiklop̬edi )
Crimean Tatar: entsiklopediya
Czech: encyklopedie (cs) f
Danish: encyklopædi (da) , leksikon (da) n
Dutch: encyclopedie (nl) m
Erzya: содамкундо ( sodamkundo )
Esperanto: enciklopedio (eo)
Estonian: entsüklopeedia (et)
Faroese: alfrøðibók f
Finnish: tietosanakirja (fi) , ensyklopedia (fi)
French: encyclopédie (fr) f
Galician: enciclopedia (gl) f
Georgian: ენციკლოპედია ( enciḳloṗedia )
German: Enzyklopädie (de) f , Lexikon (de) n , Konversationslexikon (de) n ; Realencyclopädie f , Realwörterbuch n ( archaic )
Gilaki: دانشنامه ( dånišnåmä )
Greek: εγκυκλοπαίδεια (el) f ( egkyklopaídeia )
Ancient: πανδέκτης m ( pandéktēs )
Gurani: زانستنامە ( zānistnāma )
Haitian Creole: ansiklopedi
Hebrew: אֶנְצִיקְלוֹפֶּדְיָה (he) f ( entsiklopédya )
Hindi: ज्ञानकोष m ( jñānkoṣ ) , विश्वकोश (hi) m ( viśvakoś ) , विश्वकोष (hi) m ( viśvakoṣ ) , साइक्लोपीडिया (hi) f ( sāiklopīḍiyā ) , इनसाइक्लोपीडिया f ( insāiklopīḍiyā )
Hungarian: enciklopédia (hu) , lexikon (hu)
Icelandic: alfræðibók (is) f , alfræðiorðabók (is) f , alfræðirit (is) n
Ido: enciklopedio (io)
Indonesian: ensiklopedia (id)
Interlingua: encyclopedia (ia)
Irish: ciclipéid f
Italian: enciclopedia (it) f
Japanese: 百科事典 (ja) ( ひゃっかじてん, hyakkajiten ) , 百科全書 (ja) ( ひゃっかぜんしょ, hyakkazensho )
Kannada: ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ( viśvakōśa )
Karachay-Balkar: энциклопедия ( entsiklopediya )
Kazakh: энциклопедия ( énsiklopediä )
Khmer: វិជ្ជាសមោធាន ( vɨcciə saʼmaothiən ) , សៀវភៅប្រជុំវិជ្ជា ( siəw phɨw prɑcum vɨcciə )
Korean: 백과사전(百科事典) (ko) ( baekgwasajeon ) , 백과전서(百科全書) (ko) ( baekgwajeonseo )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زانستنامە ( zanistname )
Laki: زانستنۆمە ( zanistnome )
Northern Kurdish: zanistname (ku)
Southern Kurdish: زانستنامە ( zanistname )
Kyrgyz: энциклопедия (ky) ( entsiklopediya )
Lao: ສາລານຸກົມ (lo) ( sā lā nu kom )
Latin: encyclopaedīa f ( new ) , pandectēs m
Latvian: enciklopēdija f
Limburgish: encyklopedie
Lithuanian: enciklopedija (lt) f
Livvi: tiedosanakniigu
Low German: nokieksel
Luxembourgish: Enzyklopedie f
Macedonian: енциклопе́дија f ( enciklopédija )
Malay: ensiklopedia (ms) , jagat katan
Malayalam: സർവവിജ്ഞാനകോശം ( saṟvavijñānakōśaṁ ) , വിജ്ഞാനകോശം (ml) ( vijñānakōśaṁ )
Maori: mātāpunenga
Mazanderani: دانشنومه ( dānišnuma )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: нэвтэрхий толь ( nevterxii tolʹ )
Nahuatl: centlamatilizamoxtli (nah)
Navajo: ínsadoobíídiiya
Northern Luri: دونسمنامٱ ( dunismnāma )
Northern Sami: diehtosátnegirji
Northwestern Ojibwa: gikendamowin-mazina'igan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: encyklopedi (no) m
Nynorsk: encyklopedi m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: єнкѷклопєдїꙗ f ( enkü̏klopedija ) ( new )
Ossetian: энциклопеди ( ènciklopedi )
Ottoman Turkish: محیطالمعرف ( mühītülmā'rif )
Pashto: پوهنغونډ (ps) m ( pohǝnǧwǝnḍ )
Persian:
Iranian Persian: دانِشْنامِه (fa) ( dânešnâme ) , دایِرَةُالْمَعارِف (fa) ( dâyerat-ol-ma'âref ) , دائِرَةُالْمَعارِف ( dâ'erat-ol-ma'âref ) , آنْسیکْلوپِدی (fa) ( ânsiklopedi )
Polish: encyklopedia (pl) f
Portuguese: enciclopédia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਵਿਸ਼ਵਕੋਸ਼ m ( viśvakoś )
Romanian: enciclopedie (ro) f
Russian: энциклопе́дия (ru) f ( enciklopédija )
Sanskrit: विश्वकोश (sa) ( viśvakośa )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: енциклопе́дија f
Roman: enciklopédija f
Slovak: encyklopédia (sk) f
Slovene: enciklopedija (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: encyklopedija f
Upper Sorbian: encyklopedija f
Spanish: enciclopedia (es) f
Swahili: kamusi elezo , ensaiklopidia
Swedish: encyklopedi (sv) c , konversationslexikon (sv) n , uppslagsverk (sv) n
Tagalog: santalaalaman , ensiklopedya (tl)
Tajik: донишнома (tg) ( donišnoma ) , доиратулмаориф ( doyiratulmaorif ) , энсиклопедия ( ensiklopediya )
Tatar: энциклопедия ( entsiklopediyä )
Telugu: విజ్ఞానసర్వస్వం ( vijñānasarvasvaṁ )
Thai: สารานุกรม (th) ( sǎa-raa-nú-grom )
Tibetan: ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་མཛོད ( shes bya kun khyab mdzod , literally “ treasury of the universally knowable ” ) , རིག་མཛོད ( rig mdzod , literally “ knowledge treasury ” ) ( non-standard, but now used to translate “-pedia” in “Wikipedia” )
Tigrinya: ኢንሳይክሎፐድያ ( ʾinsaykəlopädya ) , መዝገበ ፍልጠት ( mäzgäbä fəlṭät )
Turkish: ansiklopedi (tr)
Turkmen: ensiklopediýa
Ukrainian: енциклопе́дія f ( encyklopédija )
Urdu: دائِرَۃُ الْمَعارِف ( dāiratu l-ma'ārif ) , کِتابُ الْمَعارِف ( kitābu l-ma'ārif ) , قامُوس (ur) m ( qāmūs ) , اِنْسائِیکِلوپِیڈْیا ( insāīkilopīḍyā )
Uyghur: قامۇس (ug) ( qamus ) , ئېنسىكلوپېدىيە ( ënsiklopëdiye ) , ئېنىسىكلوپېدىيە ( ënisiklopëdiye )
Uzbek: ensiklopediya (uz) , qomus (uz)
Vietnamese: bách khoa toàn thư (vi) (百科全書 )
Volapük: sikloped (vo) , ( synonym ) züklopäod , realasikloped
Welsh: gwyddoniadur (cy) m
West Frisian: ensyklopedy
Yakut: энциклопедия ( entsiklopediya )
Yiddish: ענציקלאָפּעדיע f ( entsiklopedye )
Zazaki: ensiklopediye
Zealandic: encyclopedie