syllabus
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syllabus
- /ˈsɪləbəs/ US
Rhymes with -ɪləbəs
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin syllabus (“list”), which arose from accusative plural syllabōs appearing as a corruption of sittybās (accusative plural of sittyba, from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label; table of contents”)) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's “Ad Atticum” IV.5 and 8, influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to put together”).
noun syllabi · syllabuses
- A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture. 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.
- The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: curriculum, program, manual, agenda, synopsis, overview, outline, summary, scheme, schema, plan, course, programme, content, courses, trunk
Translations
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noun summary of topics
| Español | temario, syllabus, plan docente, sílabo, balotario |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | シラバス shirabasu, 教案 kyōan |
| 中文 | 教學大綱 /教学大纲 jiàoxué dàgāng |
| Português | programa, ementa |
| Français | programme, syllabus, plan de cours, sommaire |
| Deutsch | Lehrplan, Studienprogramm, Lehrprogramm, Syllabus |
| Italiano | programma |
| Ελληνικά | περίληψη perílipsi |
| Русский | уче́бная програ́мма učébnaja prográmma, уче́бный план učébnyj plan, план, си́ллабус síllabus |
| עברית | סילבוס silabus |
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title = {syllabus},
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