syllabus

English

Etymology

From Late Latin syllabus (“list”), a misreading of Ancient 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".

Noun

syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)

1. A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.

Translations

a summary of topic

Basque: syllabus Finnish: opetusohjelma French: programme (fr) m. Georgian: სილაბუსი (ka) Icelandic: námsáætlun f. Italian: programma (it) Portuguese: matriz (pt), programa (pt), matéria (pt), ementa (pt) f.

Slovak: sylaby predmetu, osnovy predmetu, informačný list predmetu Spanish: temario (es) Turkish: izlek (tr), izlence (tr) Ukrainian: програма (uk) (prohráma) f., навчальна програма (uk) (navčál'na prohráma) f. Welsh: maes llafur (cy) m.

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Latin

Noun

syllabus (genitive syllabī); m, second declension

1. list, register, syllabus

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	syllabus	syllabī
genitive	syllabī	syllabōrum
dative	syllabō	syllabīs
accusative	syllabum	syllabōs
ablative	syllabō	syllabīs
vocative	syllabe	syllabī