encyclopedia

詳細解釋：

en.cy.clo.pe.di.a

n.Abbr. encyc.,encycl.,ency.（名詞）縮寫 encyc.,encycl.,ency.
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.
百科全書：包羅萬象的參考叢書，包括關於內容廣泛學科的文章或關於某一特定領域各方面的文章，通常按字母順序排列

來源：
Medieval Latin encyclopaedia [general education course]
中世紀拉丁語 encyclopaedia [普通教育課程]
from alteration of Greek enkuklios paideia [general education]
源自 希臘語 enkuklios paideia的變化 [普通教育]
enkuklios [circular, general] * see encyclical
enkuklios [循環，普通的] *參見 encyclical
paideia [education] from pais paid- [child] * see pau-
paideia [教育] 源自 pais paid- [兒童] *參見 pau-

<注釋>The wordencyclopedia, which to us usually means a large set of books, descends from a phrase that involved coming to grips with the contents of such books.The Greek phrase isenkuklios paideia, made up of enkuklios, .cyclical, periodic, ordinary,. and paideia, .education,. and meaning .general education, literally the arts and sciences that a person should study to be liberally educated..Copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be the Greek wordenkuklopaedia, with the same meaning, and this spurious Greek word became the New Latin wordencyclopaedia, coming into English with the sense .general course of instruction,. first recorded in 53.In New Latin the word was chosen as the title of a reference work covering all knowledge.The first such use in English is recorded in '44.
單詞encyclopedia 對我們而言通常是指一大套書， 來源於一個涉及掌握這類書內容的短語。希臘片語enkuklios paideia 是由下列兩個詞組成的 enkuklios .循環的，周期性，平常的.以及 paideia .教育.， 含義是.普通教育，從字面上說就是一個想接受通才教育的人所應該學習的藝術和科學知識.。拉丁文手稿的抄錄者將此片語當成了帶有相同詞義的希臘詞enkuklopaedia ， 而該謬傳的希臘詞又構成為新拉丁語詞encyclopaedia ， 帶著其.指導教育的普遍課程.之語意又進入英文，最先記載於53年。在新拉丁語中該詞被選中作為一本覆蓋各科知識的參考著作的書名。在英國首次這樣的用法記載於'44年