syllabus
English
Etymology
Borrowed 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.[1] This misprint of sittybis or sillybis as syllabis was later wrongly related to the Greek noun συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”), but is actually from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label, table of contents”) of unknown origin.[2]
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪləbəs/
- Hyphenation: syl‧la‧bus
- Rhymes: -ɪləbəs
Noun
syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)
- A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
- (law) The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.
Translations
a summary of topic
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References
- ↑ Ad Atticum IV by Cicero
- ↑ A Dictionary of True Etymologies
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.la.bus/, [ˈsʏl.la.bʊs]
Noun
syllabus m (genitive syllabī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | syllabus | syllabī |
| genitive | syllabī | syllabōrum |
| dative | syllabō | syllabīs |
| accusative | syllabum | syllabōs |
| ablative | syllabō | syllabīs |
| vocative | syllabe | syllabī |
References
- syllabus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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