Meanings
plural syllabi · plural syllabuses
- educationA summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
‘I checked online for a beginner syllabus,’ she say. ‘A syllabus is a plan for how we would work, what I can teach you.’
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 1831 more example
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.
2019 November 23, A Falun Dafa practitioner in Australia, “Eliminating Attachments While Helping Coordinate a Minghui School”, in Minghui
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan integrated course of academic studies
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekσυλλαμβάνω“to put together”
- Ancient Greekσιττύβα“parchment label; table of contents”
- Medieval Latinsyllabus“list”
- Englishsyllabus
Borrowed from Medieval Latin syllabus (“list”), which arose from accusative plural syllabōs appearing as a corruption of sittybās (accusative plural of sittyba, from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label; table of contents”)) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's “Ad Atticum” IV.5 and 8, influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to put together”).
More words from Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque syllabus
- syllabussummary of topics
Bulgarian програ́ма
- програ́ма (prográma)summary of topics
Catalan temari, currículum
- temarisummary of topics
- currículumsummary of topics
Chinese Mandarin 教學大綱 /教学大纲
- 教學大綱 /教学大纲 (jiàoxué dàgāng)summary of topics
Danish studieplan
- studieplansummary of topics
Dutch leerstof, stof
- leerstofsummary of topics
- stofsummary of topics
- syllabussummary of topics
Finnish oppisisältö, kurssin sisältö
- oppisisältösummary of topics
- kurssin sisältösummary of topics
French programme, syllabus
- programmesummary of topics
- syllabussummary of topics
- plan de courssummary of topics
- sommairesummary of topics
German Lehrplan, Studienprogramm
- Lehrplansummary of topics
- Studienprogrammsummary of topics
- Lehrprogrammsummary of topics
- Syllabussummary of topics
Greek περίληψη
- περίληψη (perílipsi)summary of topics
Hebrew סילבוס
- סילבוס (silabus)summary of topics
Hungarian sillabusz
- sillabuszsummary of topics
Icelandic námsáætlun
- námsáætlunsummary of topics
Indonesian silabus
- silabussummary of topics
Italian programma
- programmasummary of topics
Japanese シラバス, 教案
- シラバス (shirabasu)summary of topics
- 教案 (kyōan)summary of topics
Polish program nauczania, syllabus
- program nauczaniasummary of topics
- syllabussummary of topics
- sylabussummary of topics
Portuguese programa, ementa
- programasummary of topics
- ementasummary of topics
Russian уче́бная програ́мма, уче́бный план
- уче́бная програ́мма (učébnaja prográmma)summary of topics
- уче́бный план (učébnyj plan)summary of topics
- планsummary of topics
- си́ллабус (síllabus)summary of topics
Slovak sylaby predmetu, osnovy predmetu
- sylaby predmetusummary of topics
- osnovy predmetusummary of topics
- informačný list predmetusummary of topics
Spanish temario, syllabus
- temariosummary of topics
- syllabussummary of topics
- plan docentesummary of topics
- sílabosummary of topics
- balotariosummary of topics
Swedish studieplan
- studieplansummary of topics
Tagalog talapaksaan
- talapaksaansummary of topics
Turkish izlek, izlence
- izleksummary of topics
- izlencesummary of topics
- müfredatsummary of topics
Ukrainian програ́ма, навча́льна програ́ма
- програ́ма (prohráma)summary of topics
- навча́льна програ́ма (navčálʹna prohráma)summary of topics
Urdu نِصاب
- نِصاب (nisāb)summary of topics
Welsh maes llafur
- maes llafursummary of topics
Cite this entry
syllabus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syllabus
“syllabus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syllabus. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “syllabus,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syllabus.
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