[New Latin syllabus, summary, outline, list, back-formed nominative singular from syllabos, misreading (propagated in early printed editions of Cicero's letters and taken to be a masculine accusative plural) of syllabous, medieval misreading (influenced by Greek sullambanein, sullab-, to put together) of Greek sittubas (used by Cicero with the meaning "parchment labels or tags for scrolls," in the Latin text of one of his letters), accusative plural of sittuba, variant of sittubon, a small hide or piece of leather (perhaps originally meaning "a goat-skin" and akin to Modern Greek dialectal sita, goat, perhaps from Greek sittā, psittā, word imitative of the sound used by shepherds to call their flocks).]