curriculum

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See also: currículum

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricle.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪkjələm/, /kɚˈɪkjələm/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, /kɜːɹˈɪk.juː.ləm/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)

  1. (US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.
    • 2009 November 25, Gennady Stolyarov II, “Murphy on the Great Confusion”, in Mises Institute‎:
      Perhaps someday my old US history teacher, and men like him, will use The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression in their courses to balance the many explicitly pro–New Deal and prointerventionist texts and presentations that dominate public-school curricula today.
    • 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time‎:
      But as the effects of climate change have become more visible in recent years, and the breadth of the transformation needed to fight it has become clear, law schools, med schools, literature programs, economics departments and more are incorporating climate into their undergraduate curriculums, grappling with how climate will transform their fields and attempting to prepare students to face those transformations in the labor market.
    • 2024 November 22, Amanda Musa and Zoe Sottile, “Texas education officials approve optional school curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons. Some say it’s unconstitutional”, in CNN‎:
      Bluebonnet Learning materials will be part of a menu of curriculums available for school districts to use. Staci Childs, a member of the board who voted against Bluebonnet, told CNN Friday that although the curriculum is optional, she expects most districts will adopt it given the “huge financial implications” of the incentive.
  2. (UK, Canada, Australia) The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.
    • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108:
      Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
  3. (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.

Derived terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers- (0 c, 49 e)

Translations

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kurikulum/
  • Rhymes: -ulum, -um
  • Hyphenation: cu‧rri‧cu‧lum

Noun

curriculum inan

  1. curriculum
  2. curriculum vitae

Declension

Declension of curriculum (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive curriculum curriculuma curriculumak
ergative curriculumek curriculumak curriculumek
dative curriculumi curriculumari curriculumei
genitive curriculumen curriculumaren curriculumen
comitative curriculumekin curriculumarekin curriculumekin
causative curriculumengatik curriculumarengatik curriculumengatik
benefactive curriculumentzat curriculumarentzat curriculumentzat
instrumental curriculumez curriculumaz curriculumez
inessive curriculumetan curriculumean curriculumetan
locative curriculumetako curriculumeko curriculumetako
allative curriculumetara curriculumera curriculumetara
terminative curriculumetaraino curriculumeraino curriculumetaraino
directive curriculumetarantz curriculumerantz curriculumetarantz
destinative curriculumetarako curriculumerako curriculumetarako
ablative curriculumetatik curriculumetik curriculumetatik
partitive curriculumik — —
prolative curriculumtzat — —

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Noun

curriculum f (plural curriculums)

  1. curriculum

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin curriculum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/
  • Rhymes: -ikulum
  • Hyphenation: cur‧rì‧cu‧lum
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

curriculum m

  1. curriculum
  2. curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

From currō (“run, move quickly”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

Noun

curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension

  1. a race
  2. a racecourse
  3. a racing chariot

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative curriculum curricula
genitive curriculī curriculōrum
dative curriculō curriculīs
accusative curriculum curricula
ablative curriculō curriculīs
vocative curriculum curricula

Descendants

References

  • “curriculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "curriculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • curriculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
  • curriculum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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