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A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsɪləbəs/US
  1. A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.

  2. The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.

Where this word comes from

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”).

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