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Webster 1913 Edition

Syllabus

Syl′la-bus

,
Noun.
;
pl. E.
Syllabuses
(#)
, L.
Syllabi
(#)
.
[L., fr. the same source as E.
syllable
.]
1.
A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

Webster 1828 Edition

Syllabus

SYL'LABUS

,
Noun.
[L. from the same source as syllable.] An abstract; a compendium containing the heads of a discourse.

Definition 2024

syllabus

syllabus

English

Noun

syllabus ‎(plural syllabi or syllabuses)

  1. A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
  2. (law) The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.

Translations

References

  1. ↑ A Dictionary of True Etymologies
  2. ↑ Ad Atticum IV by Cicero

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.la.bus/, [ˈsʏl.la.bʊs]

Noun

syllabus m ‎(genitive syllabī); second declension

  1. list, register, syllabus

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

Etymology

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. This misprint of sittybis or sillybis as syllabis was later wrongly related to the Greek noun συλλαβή "syllabe", but is actually from Ancient Greek σιττύβα ‎(sittúba, “parchment label, table of contents”) of unknown origin.[1][2]

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