curriculum
See also: currículum
English
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Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricle.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.ləm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/
Noun
[edit]curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)
- (US) The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.
- 2009 November 25, Gennady Stolyarov II, “Murphy on the Great Confusion”, in Mises Institute[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2025:
- Perhaps someday my old US history teacher, and men like him, will use The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression in their courses to balance the many explicitly pro–New Deal and prointerventionist texts and presentations that dominate public-school curricula today.
- 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time[2], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 July 2025:
- 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.
- 2024 November 22, Amanda Musa and Zoe Sottile, “Texas education officials approve optional school curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons. Some say it’s unconstitutional”, in CNN[3], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 10 March 2026:
- Bluebonnet Learning materials will be part of a menu of curriculums available for school districts to use. […] Staci Childs, a member of the board who voted against Bluebonnet, told CNN Friday that although the curriculum is optional, she expects most districts will adopt it given the “huge financial implications” of the incentive.
- (UK, Canada, Australia, Philippines) 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
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[edit]Translations
[edit]set of courses and coursework
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Basque
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[edit]Noun
[edit]curriculum inan
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “curriculum”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]curriculum f (plural curriculums)
Further reading
[edit]- “curriculum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin curriculum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]curriculum m
- curriculum
- curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience
Synonyms
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
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From currō (“run, move quickly”) + -culum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊrˈrɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kurˈriː.ku.lum]
Noun
[edit]curriculum n (genitive curriculī); second declension
- a race
- a racecourse
- a racing chariot
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | curriculum | curricula |
| genitive | curriculī | curriculōrum |
| dative | curriculō | curriculīs |
| accusative | curriculum | curricula |
| ablative | curriculō | curriculīs |
| vocative | curriculum | curricula |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[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, 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[4], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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