Repertoire

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛp.ə.twɑː/

Definitions

1. The collection of skills, techniques, or works that a person or group is prepared to perform or use
2. A range of skills, techniques, or artistic works that an individual or group is ready to present or employ
3. A set of abilities, performances, or creative works that one or more persons are equipped to showcase or utilize

Etymology: The word began as a Late Latin bookkeeping term. "Repertōrium" meant an inventory or list, a place where things were recorded so they could be found again, and it passed into Middle French as "repertoire" with that same sense of an organised list. English borrowed the French form, so "repertoire" and its near-twin "repertory" are doublets: two words from one Latin source that arrived by different routes. The shift from list to skills happened through the idea of a stock of things a person or company can draw on. A theatre's repertoire is the set of plays it can perform, and by extension a performer's or organisation's range of abilities is the collection of things they are ready to do. The modern sense of a "range of skills" grows directly from that notion of a ready-made store of items, so the word still carries its original inventory idea inside it.

Synonyms: collection, inventory, list