Does “syllabus” derive from Greek or Latin?

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I'm looking for some hard evidence to determine whether syllabus is a word that derives from Greek or Latin.

This came about from a discussion asking whether the plural of syllabus is syllabuses">syllabuses or syllabi. We deduced that the plural would be syllabi if it derived from Latin, but views conflicted as to whether the word actually derived from Latin, or if it actually has its roots in Greek.

Can anyone come up the answer to this conundrum?