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)

1. 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.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A dagger.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /en.kʰiːˈri.di.on/, [ɛŋkʰiːˈrɪd̪iɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /en.kiˈri.di.on/, [eŋkiˈriːd̪ion]

Noun

enchīridion n (genitive enchīridiī); second declension

1. 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016