Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#CURRICULUMCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CURRICULUM curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricleCategory:English doublets#CURRICULUM.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.ləm/Category:English 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/Category:English 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM

  • Audio (US):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CURRICULUM
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈkə.rɪ.k(j)ʊ.ləm/Category:English 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM

Noun

curriculum (plural curricula or curriculums)Category:English lemmas#CURRICULUMCategory:English nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:English countable nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#CURRICULUMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with entries#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CURRICULUM

1. (USCategory:American English#CURRICULUM) 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:

     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.

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   • 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time‎, 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.

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   • 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:

     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.

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2. (UKCategory:British English#CURRICULUM, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#CURRICULUM, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#CURRICULUM, PhilippinesCategory:Philippine English#CURRICULUM) 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, →DOI, page 108:

     Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.

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3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CURRICULUM) A racecourse; a place for running.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurikulum/ [ku.ri.ku.lũm]Category:Basque 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:Basque terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM
• Rhymes: -ulum, -umCategory:Rhymes:Basque/ulum#CURRICULUMCategory:Rhymes:Basque/ulum/4 syllables#CURRICULUMCategory:Rhymes:Basque/um#CURRICULUMCategory:Rhymes:Basque/um/4 syllables#CURRICULUM
• Hyphenation: cu‧rri‧cu‧lum

Noun

curriculum inanCategory:Basque lemmas#CURRICULUMCategory:Basque nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Basque terms spelled with C#CURRICULUMCategory:Basque entries with incorrect language header#CURRICULUMCategory:Basque inanimate nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with entries#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CURRICULUM

1. curriculum
2. curriculum vitae

Further reading

• “curriculum”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#CURRICULUM

Noun

curriculum f (plural curriculums)Category:French lemmas#CURRICULUMCategory:French nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:French countable nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CURRICULUMCategory:French feminine nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with entries#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CURRICULUM

1. curriculum

Further reading

• “curriculum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from LatinCategory:Italian terms borrowed from Latin#CURRICULUMCategory:Italian unadapted borrowings from Latin#CURRICULUMCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#CURRICULUM curriculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurˈri.ku.lum/Category:Italian 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM
• Rhymes: -ikulumCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ikulum#CURRICULUMCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ikulum/4 syllables#CURRICULUM
• Hyphenation: cur‧rì‧cu‧lum

• Audio:

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  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#CURRICULUM

Noun

curriculum mCategory:Italian lemmas#CURRICULUMCategory:Italian nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#CURRICULUMCategory:Italian masculine nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with entries#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CURRICULUM

1. curriculum
2. curriculum vitae, CV; resume: summary of education and employment experience

Etymology

From currō (“run, move quickly”) +‎ -culumCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -culum#CURRICULUM.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊrˈrɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kurˈriː.ku.lum]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CURRICULUM

Noun

curriculum n (genitive curriculī)Category:Latin lemmas#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin second declension nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns in the second declension#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CURRICULUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with entries#CURRICULUMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#CURRICULUM; second declension

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

References

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish one's career: vitae cursum or curriculum conficere
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• curriculum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016