English
Etymology
Latin encyclopaedia from Greek en + kyklo(s) circle + paideia education
- A reference work (often in several volumes) containing in-depth articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with a wide range of subjects or with some particular specialty
Alternative spellings
- encyclopædia
- (chiefly British): encyclopaedia. The spelling encyclopedia is standard in American, Canadian, Australian and International English and is also common in British English.
Translations
- Afrikaans: ensiklopedie
- Alsatian: Enzyklopädie
- Arabic: موسوعة ())
- Basque: entziklopedia
- Bulgarian: енциклопедия f (enchiklopediya)
- enciclopèdia
- Chinese: 百科全書 , 百科全书 (bai ke quan shu)
- Czech: encyklopedie
- encyklopædi
- Dutch: encyclopedie m
- Esperanto: enciklopedio
- Faeroese: Alfrøðibók
- tietosanakirja , ensyklopedia
- encyclopédie f
- Enzyklopädie f
- Greek: εγκυκλοπαδεια (egyklopaideia, egkiklopedia) (el )
- Gothic: einkeiklopeidya ?
- Hebrew: אנציקלופדיה (ansiklopedia)
- Indian: ज्ञानकोष ()
- Indonesian: ensiklopedia
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- Interlingua: encyclopedia
- Italian: enciclopedia f
- Japanese: 大辞典 (だいじてん, dai-jiten)
- Latin: encyclopaedia
- Latvian: enciklopēdija f
- Limburgish: encyklopedie
- Lithuanian: enciklopedija f
- Low Saxon: nokieksel
- Luxemburgian: encyklopedie
- Norwegian: encyklopedi
- Persian: دایرةالمعارف
- Polish: encyklopedia f
- Portuguese: enciclopédia f
- Romanian: enciclopedie f
- Romanica: encyclopedia f, encyclopaedia f
- Russian: энциклопедия (ěnciklopedija)
- Slovak: encyklopédia
- Slovene: enciklopedija
- Spanish: enciclopedia m
- Tagalog: ensiklopedya
- สารานุกรม (ankik???????)
- Енциклопедія (enciklopedija)
- Vietnamese: Sách bách khoa
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