curriculum

See also: currículum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), derived from currō (run, move quickly). Doublet of curricle.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪkjələm/, /kɚˈɪkjələm/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/, /kɜːɹˈɪk.juː.ləm/
  • (file)

Noun

curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)

  1. The set of courses, coursework, and their content, offered at a school or university.
    • 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, →DOI, page 108:
      Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
    • 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A racecourse; a place for running.

Derived terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱers-‎ (0 c, 45 e)

Translations

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kurikulum/ [ku.ri.ku.lũm]
  • Rhymes: -ulum
  • Hyphenation: cu‧rri‧cu‧lum

Noun

curriculum inan

  1. curriculum
  2. curriculum vitae

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

  • "curriculum" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

French

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

curriculum f (plural curriculums)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/
  • Rhymes: -ikulum
  • Hyphenation: cur‧rì‧cu‧lum
  • (file)

Noun

curriculum m

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  2. curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

From currō (run, move quickly) + -culum.

Pronunciation

Noun

curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension

  1. a race
  2. a racecourse
  3. a racing chariot

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • Catalan: currículum
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • German: Curriculum
  • Italian: curricolo
  • Norman: tchuthitchulum
  • Portuguese: currículo
  • Spanish: currículo, carrejo

References

  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
  • curriculum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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