pandect

Etymology

Sense 3, "comprehensive treatise", comes from Latin pandectēs ("book that contains everything, encyclopedia"), from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης (pandéktēs, "encyclopedia", literally "all-receiver"), made up of παν- (pan-, prefix meaning 'all', from πᾶς (pâs, "all")) plus δέκτης (déktēs, "receiver, recipient", from δέχομαι (dékhomai, "to receive"), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- ("to take; to perceive"), plus -της (-tēs, suffix forming agent nouns)). Sense 1, "compendium of writings on Roman law", in the plural form Pandects, comes from Late Latin pandectae ("the Pandects"), the plural of pandectēs, modelled on (Byzantine) Ancient Greek πανδέκται (pandéktai, "the Pandects"), the plural of πανδέκτης (pandéktēs); see above for that word's origin.