enchiridion

Either via Latin enchīridion or directly, from Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion, “handbook, manual”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + a neuter suffix.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛn.kaɪˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/
• Hyphenation: en‧chi‧ri‧di‧on
• Rhymes: -ɪdiən

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.^[1][2]

From Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheirídion).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛŋ.kʰiːˈrɪ.di.ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eŋ.kiˈriː.d̪i.on]

enchīridion n (genitive enchīridiī); second declension

1. a manual

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• “enchiridion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• enchiridion in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016