syllabus
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From Late Latin syllabus "list", a misreading of Greek σιττύβας - sittybas (accusative plural of σιττύβα - sittyba "parchment label, table of contents" of unknown origin) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's "Ad Atticum" iv.5 and 8. This misprint of syttabas as syllabos was later wrongly related to the Greek noun συλλαβή "syllable".[1]
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syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)
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a summary of topic
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