syllabus

  • 21syllabus — [[t]sɪ̱ləbəs[/t]] syllabuses 1) N COUNT You can refer to the subjects that are studied in a particular course as the syllabus. [mainly BRIT] ...the GCSE history syllabus. Syn: curriculum 2) N COUNT A syllabus is an outline or summary of the… …

    English dictionary

  • 22syllabus — /sil euh beuhs/, n., pl. syllabuses, syllabi / buy /. 1. 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. 2. Law. a. a short summary of the legal basis …

    Universalium

  • 23Syllabus — Zusammenfassung; Gesamtschau; Übersicht; Überblick * * * Syl|la|bus 〈m.; , od. la|bi〉 1864 durch Papst Pius IX. veröffentlichtes Verzeichnis aller abzulehnenden modernen theolog. Lehren [nlat., irrtüml. statt lat. sittybas (Akk. Plur); zu grch.… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 24syllabus — n. to draw up, make up a syllabus * * * [ sɪləbəs] make up a syllabus to draw up …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 25syllabus — syl|la|bus [ˈsıləbəs] n [Date: 1600 1700; : Modern Latin; Origin: , from a mistaken reading of Latin sittyba label ] a plan that states exactly what students at a school or college should learn in a particular subject →↑curriculum on a syllabus ▪ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26syllabus — [17] The word syllabus is the result of a misprint. It originated as Greek sittúbā ‘label, table of contents’, which was borrowed into Latin as sittyba. However, in an early printed edition of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, in the 1470s, its… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 27syllabus — [17] The word syllabus is the result of a misprint. It originated as Greek sittúbā ‘label, table of contents’, which was borrowed into Latin as sittyba. However, in an early printed edition of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, in the 1470s, its… …

    Word origins

  • 28syllabus — (Voz latina.) ► sustantivo masculino RELIGIÓN Enumeración sumaria de errores doctrinales condenados por la autoridad eclesiástica. IRREG. plural syllabus …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 29syllabus — (entrée créée par le supplément) (sil la bus ) s. m. Terme ecclésiastique. Recueil ou récapitulation sommaire des principales erreurs des temps modernes, signalées dans les allocutions consistoriales, encycliques, et autres lettres apostoliques… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 30Syllabus — Syl|la|bus der; , Plur. u. ...bi <über gleichbed. spätlat. syllabus aus gr. sýllabos> Zusammenfassung, Verzeichnis (Titel der päpstlichen Sammlungen kirchlich verurteilter religiöser, philos. u. politischer Lehren von 1864 u. 1907) …

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