different between syllabus vs syllabi

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. The corrupt form was influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek ?????????? (sullambán?, “put together”), the source of ??????? (sullab?, “syllable”); the true etymon is ??????? (sittúba, “parchment label, table of contents”) of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?b?s/
• Hyphenation: syl?la?bus
• Rhymes: -?l?b?s

Noun

syllabus (plural syllabi or syllabuses)

1. (education) 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.

Related terms

• syllable

Translations

References

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?syl.la.bus/, [?s??l??äb?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sil.la.bus/, [?sil??bus]

Noun

syllabus m (genitive syllab?); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) list, register, syllabus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• syllabus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Noun

syllabi

1. plural of syllabus

Anagrams

• Sibylla

Latin

Noun

syllab?

1. nominative plural of syllabus
2. genitive singular of syllabus
3. vocative plural of syllabus