syllabus

Borrowed from Medieval Latin syllabus (“list”), which arose as a misprint, its accusative plural syllabos appearing in place of sittybas in a 1470s edition of Cicero's “Ad Atticum” IV.5 and 8.[1] The corrupt form was influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “put together”), the source of σῠλλᾰβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”); the true etymon is σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label, table of contents”) of unknown origin.[2]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪləbəs/

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• Hyphenation: syl‧la‧bus
• Rhymes: -ɪləbəs

syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)

1. (education) A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
   • 2019 November 23, A Falun Dafa practitioner in Australia, “Eliminating Attachments While Helping Coordinate a Minghui School”, in Minghui‎:

     In the first half of the year, teachers attended the training workshop for the new K-10 Chinese syllabus. In July, almost all the teachers attended the teacher training courses provided by OCAC.

   • 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 183:

     ‘I checked online for a beginner syllabus,’ she say. ‘A syllabus is a plan for how we would work, what I can teach you.’

2. (law) The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.

• syllable

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsyl.la.bus/, [ˈs̠ʏlːʲäbʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.la.bus/, [ˈsilːäbus]

syllabus m (genitive syllabī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) list, register, syllabus

Second-declension noun.

• “syllabus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press