How to pronounce syllabus
American English pronunciation
SIL-uh-bus
- IPA
- /ˈsɪləbəs/
- Syllables
- SIL · uh · bus (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What syllabus means
A list of what a class will study
In a sentence: Our teacher handed out a syllabus on the first day of class.
Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin word meaning a list. That word seems to have started from a mix-up in a 1470s copy of the Roman writer Cicero's letters.
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