encyclopedia

• 百科事典

en-、入る、作る。-サイクル、円。-元々は子供を教育するための一般教養シリーズで、後に百科事典となった。

encyclopedia

encyclopedia: [16] Etymologically, encyclopedia means ‘general education’. It is a medieval formation, based on the Greek phrase egkúklios paideíā (egkúklios, a compound adjective formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and kúklos ‘circle’ – source of English cycle – meant originally ‘circular’, and hence ‘general’, and is the ultimate source of English encyclical [17]; paideíā ‘education’ was a derivative of país ‘boy, child’, which has given English paederast [18], paedophilia [20], pedagogue [14], pedant [16], and paediatrician [20]).

This referred to the general course of education which it was customary to give a child in classical Greece, and after it was merged into a single word egkuklopaideíā and transmitted via medieval Latin encyclopedia into English, it retained that meaning at first. However, in the 17th century the term began to be applied to compendious reference works (the first, or at least the one which did most to establish the name, was perhaps that of J H Alsted in 1632).

The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768.
=> cycle, encyclical, paederast, pedagogue, pedant, pediatrician

encyclopedia (n.)

1530s, "general course of instruction," from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c. 1500), thought to be a false reading by Latin authors of Greek enkyklios paideia taken as "general education," but literally "training in a circle," i.e. the "circle" of arts and sciences, the essentials of a liberal education; from enkyklios "circular," also "general" (from en "in;" see in + kyklos "circle;" see cycle (n.)) + paideia "education, child-rearing," from pais (genitive paidos) "child" (see pedo-).

Modern sense of "reference work arranged alphabetically" is from 1640s, often applied specifically to the French "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers" (1751-65). Related: Encyclopedist.

1. The Encyclopedia is packed with clear illustrations and over 250 recipes.

その百科事典には、はっきりしたイラストと250以上のレシピがたくさんあります。

2.The encyclopedia fell to the floor with a thud.

その百科事典はどんと地面に落ちた。

3.Geoff is a walking encyclopedia .He knows about everything.

ジェフは生きた百科事典で、彼は何でも知っている。

4.A dictionary explains words and an encyclopedia explains facts.

辞書解釈語で百科事典が事実を説明する。

5.Why don 't you look it up in the encyclopedia ？

なぜ百科事典を調べないのですか。