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Syllabus
//ˈsɪləbəs// noun
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Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 an integrated course of academic studies wordnet
- 3 The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.
Etymology
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. The corrupt form was influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “put together”), the source of σῠλλᾰβή (sŭllăbḗ, “syllable”); the true etymon is σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label, table of contents”) [or σιττύβας (sittúbas)] of unknown origin.
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