curriculum
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See also: currículum
English
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)
- The set of courses, coursework, and their content, offered at a school or university.
- 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, , page 108:
- Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.
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Translations
set of courses and coursework
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Basque
Pronunciation
Noun
curriculum inan
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
- "curriculum" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
curriculum f (plural curriculums)
Further reading
- “curriculum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin curriculum.
Pronunciation
Noun
curriculum m
- curriculum
- curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience
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Latin
Etymology
From currō (“run, move quickly”) + -culum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/,
Noun
curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension
- a race
- a racecourse
- a racing chariot
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | curriculum | curricula |
| Genitive | curriculī | curriculōrum |
| Dative | curriculō | curriculīs |
| Accusative | curriculum | curricula |
| Ablative | curriculō | curriculīs |
| Vocative | curriculum | curricula |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: currículum
- → English: curricle; curriculum
- → French: curriculum
- → German: Curriculum
- Italian: curricolo
- Norman: tchuthitchulum
- Portuguese: currículo
- Spanish: currículo, carrejo
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
- 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