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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin syllabus (“list”), which arose as a misprint, its accusative plural syllabos appearing in place of sittybas in a 1470s edition of Cicero's “Ad Atticum” IV.5 and 8.[1] The corrupt form was influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “put together”), the source of σῠλλᾰβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”); the true etymon is σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label, table of contents”) of unknown origin.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)
- (education) A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
2019 November 23, A Falun Dafa practitioner in Australia, “Eliminating Attachments While Helping Coordinate a Minghui School”, in Minghui:In the first half of the year, teachers attended the training workshop for the new K-10 Chinese syllabus. In July, almost all the teachers attended the teacher training courses provided by OCAC.
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 183:‘I checked online for a beginner syllabus,’ she say. ‘A syllabus is a plan for how we would work, what I can teach you.’
- (law) The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.
Translations
summary of topics
- Armenian: կոնսպեկտ (hy) (konspekt)
- Basque: syllabus
- Bulgarian: програ́ма (bg) f (prográma)
- Catalan: temari m, currículum (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 教學大綱/教学大纲 (jiàoxué dàgāng)
- Danish: studieplan c
- Dutch: leerstof (nl) m, stof (nl) m
- Finnish: oppisisältö, kurssin sisältö
- French: programme (fr) m, syllabus (fr) m, plan de cours m, sommaire (fr) m
- Georgian: სილაბუსი (silabusi)
- German: Lehrplan (de) m, Studienprogramm n, Lehrprogramm n, Syllabus m
- Greek: περίληψη (el) f (perílipsi)
- Hebrew: סילבוס (he) m (silabus)
- Hungarian: sillabusz (hu)
- Icelandic: námsáætlun f
- Indonesian: silabus (id)
- Italian: programma (it) ?
- Japanese: シラバス (ja) (shirabasu), 教案 (きょうあん, kyōan)
- Polish: program nauczania m, syllabus (pl) m, sylabus m
- Portuguese: programa (pt) m, ementa (pt) f
- Russian: уче́бная програ́мма f (učébnaja prográmma), уче́бный план m (učébnyj plan), план (обуче́ния) (ru) m (plan (obučénija)), си́ллабус (ru) m (síllabus)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на́ста̄внӣ про̀грам m
- Roman: nástāvnī prògram m
- Slovak: sylaby predmetu ?, osnovy predmetu ?, informačný list predmetu m inan
- Spanish: temario m, syllabus m (Honduras), plan docente m, sílabo (es) m
- Swedish: studieplan n
- Tagalog: talapaksaan
- Turkish: izlek (tr), izlence (tr), müfredat (tr)
- Ukrainian: програ́ма f (prohráma), навча́льна програ́ма f (navčálʹna prohráma)
- Urdu: نِصاب m (nisāb)
- Welsh: maes llafur m
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References
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
syllabus m (genitive syllabī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) list, register, syllabus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin syllabus, from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English syllabus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɘlˈla.bus/
- Rhymes: -abus
- Syllabification: syl‧la‧bus
Noun
syllabus m inan
- (Roman Catholicism) syllabus (summary of points decided by Roman Catholic papal decree regarding heretical doctrines or practices)
- (education) syllabus (summary of topics)
- Synonym: program nauczania
- Hypernym: informator
Declension
Further reading
- syllabus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- syllabus in Polish dictionaries at PWN