curriculum English · revision 7671

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1633|origins=la curriculum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.ləm/ ''(UK)''; /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is New Latin, from Latin [[m|la|curriculum|t=a running, course, career; a racing chariot]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|curro|alt=currere|t=to run]] (see [[current]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) from PIE [[ine-pro|*ḱers-|alt=*kers-|t=to run]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A course, especially a regular course of study: 1633 in the OED, as a Latin word used at the University of Glasgow;^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) in English use from 1824.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Word Origins notes that the word was used in the academic sense in the Latin records of Scottish universities from the 17th century.^(Cresswell 2021) A [[curriculum vitae]], Latin for the course of one's life, is thus literally the course of your life,^(Cresswell 2021) and the light carriage called a [[curricle]] took up the racing sense in the mid-18th century.^(Cresswell 2021) ''Curricular'' meant to do with driving carriages in 1798, and to do with a school curriculum from about 1909.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1633 – at Glasgow, in Latin.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1798 – curricular, of carriages.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1824 – in English.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1909 – curricular, of courses.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # All the courses of study offered by a [[school]] or college.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A course of study in one subject, or a group of related courses.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Any programme or plan of activities.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[curricular]]

+ * [[extracurricular]]

+ * [[core curriculum]]

+ * [[curriculum vitae]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[curricle]]

+ * [[current]]

+ * [[course]]

+ * [[courier]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The plural is curricula or curriculums.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}