curriculum
See also: currículum
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricle.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪkjələm/, /kɚˈɪkjələm/
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, /kɜːɹˈɪk.juː.ləm/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
editcurriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)
- (US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.
- 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time[1]:
- But as the effects of climate change have become more visible in recent years, and the breadth of the transformation needed to fight it has become clear, law schools, med schools, literature programs, economics departments and more are incorporating climate into their undergraduate curriculums, grappling with how climate will transform their fields and attempting to prepare students to face those transformations in the labor market.
- (UK, Canada, Australia) The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, , page 108:
- Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editset of courses and coursework
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Basque
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcurriculum inan
Declension
editDeclension of curriculum (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | curriculum | curriculuma | curriculumak |
ergative | curriculumek | curriculumak | curriculumek |
dative | curriculumi | curriculumari | curriculumei |
genitive | curriculumen | curriculumaren | curriculumen |
comitative | curriculumekin | curriculumarekin | curriculumekin |
causative | curriculumengatik | curriculumarengatik | curriculumengatik |
benefactive | curriculumentzat | curriculumarentzat | curriculumentzat |
instrumental | curriculumez | curriculumaz | curriculumez |
inessive | curriculumetan | curriculumean | curriculumetan |
locative | curriculumetako | curriculumeko | curriculumetako |
allative | curriculumetara | curriculumera | curriculumetara |
terminative | curriculumetaraino | curriculumeraino | curriculumetaraino |
directive | curriculumetarantz | curriculumerantz | curriculumetarantz |
destinative | curriculumetarako | curriculumerako | curriculumetarako |
ablative | curriculumetatik | curriculumetik | curriculumetatik |
partitive | curriculumik | — | — |
prolative | curriculumtzat | — | — |
Further reading
edit- “curriculum”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editcurriculum f (plural curriculums)
Further reading
edit- “curriculum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin curriculum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcurriculum m
- curriculum
- curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience
Synonyms
editRelated terms
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom currō (“run, move quickly”) + -culum.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/, [kʊrˈrɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/, [kurˈriːkulum]
Noun
editcurriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension
- a race
- a racecourse
- a racing chariot
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | curriculum | curricula |
Genitive | curriculī | curriculōrum |
Dative | curriculō | curriculīs |
Accusative | curriculum | curricula |
Ablative | curriculō | curriculīs |
Vocative | curriculum | curricula |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Catalan: currículum
- → English: curricle; curriculum
- → French: curriculum
- → German: Curriculum
- Italian: curricolo
- Norman: tchuthitchulum
- Portuguese: currículo
- Spanish: currículo, carrejo
References
edit- “curriculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curriculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- curriculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
- to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
- curriculum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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