syllabus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin syllabus (“list”), a misreading of sittybis or sillybis (ablative plural) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's "Ad Atticum" iv.5 and 8. This misprint of sittybis or sillybis as syllabis was later wrongly related to the Greek noun συλλαβή "syllabe", but is actually from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittyba, “parchment label, table of contents”) of unknown origin.[1][2]
Noun[edit]
syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)
Translations[edit]
a summary of topic
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References[edit]
- ^ A Dictionary of True Etymologies
- ^ Ad Atticum IV by Cicero
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
syllabus (genitive syllabī); m, second declension
Inflection[edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | syllabus | syllabī |
| genitive | syllabī | syllabōrum |
| dative | syllabō | syllabīs |
| accusative | syllabum | syllabōs |
| ablative | syllabō | syllabīs |
| vocative | syllabe | syllabī |