syl·la·bus
(sĭl′ə-bəs)n. pl. syl·la·bus·es or
syl·la·bi (-bī′) 1. An outline or a summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study.
2. Law A summary or abstract of the legal rulings contained in a published judicial case opinion.
[New Latin syllabus, summary, outline, list, back-formed nominative singular from syllabos, misreading (propagated in early printed editions of Cicero's letters and taken to be a masculine accusative plural) of syllabous, medieval misreading (influenced by Greek sullambanein, sullab-, to put together) of Greek sittubas (used by Cicero with the meaning "parchment labels or tags for scrolls," in the Latin text of one of his letters), accusative plural of sittuba, variant of sittubon, a small hide or piece of leather (perhaps originally meaning "a goat-skin" and akin to Modern Greek dialectal sita, goat, perhaps from Greek sittā, psittā, word imitative of the sound used by shepherds to call their flocks).]
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syllabus
(ˈsɪləbəs) n,
pl -buses or -bi (
-ˌbaɪ)
1. (Education) an outline of a course of studies, text, etc
2. (Education)
a. the subjects studied for a particular course
b. a document which lists these subjects and states how the course will be assessed
[C17: from Late Latin, erroneously from Latin sittybus parchment strip giving title and author, from Greek sittuba]
Syllabus
(ˈsɪləbəs) n1. (Roman Catholic Church) Also called: Syllabus of Errors a list of 80 doctrinal theses condemned as erroneous by Pius IX in 1864
2. (Roman Catholic Church) a list of 65 Modernist propositions condemned as erroneous by Pius X in 1907
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syl•la•bus
(ˈsɪl ə bəs)
n., pl. -bus•es, -bi (-ˌbaɪ) an outline or other brief statement of the main points of a discourse, the subjects of a course of lectures, the contents of a curriculum, etc.
[1650–60; < New Latin syllabus, syllabos, probably a misreading (in mss. of Cicero) of Greek síttybās, acc. pl. of síttyba label for a papyrus roll]
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curriculum, syllabus - A curriculum is a complete course of study offered by a school; a syllabus is the outline of a single course.See also related terms for
outline.
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syllabus
A summary of the important elements of a course of study or text. In the United Kingdom this also means the subjects studied in a particular course or at a particular institution.
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