matriculate

English

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Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1557; borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#MATRICULATECategory:English terms derived from Latin#MATRICULATE mātrīculātus, perfect passive participle of mātrīculō (to register) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from mātrīcula (public register), a diminutive of LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#MATRICULATE mātrīx (list). By surface analysis, matricul(a) + -ate + -ionCategory:English terms suffixed with -ate#MATRICULATECategory:English terms suffixed with -ion#MATRICULATE.

Pronunciation

Verb
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Verb

matriculate (third-person singular simple present matriculates, present participle matriculating, simple past and past participle matriculated)Category:English lemmas#MATRICULATECategory:English verbs#MATRICULATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MATRICULATECategory:Pages with entries#MATRICULATECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MATRICULATE

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MATRICULATE) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MATRICULATE, by extension, often with to) To join or enter (a group, body, category of people, etc.).
    • 2024 November 30 (last accessed), “Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace”, in HRC Foundation, archived from the original on 29 November 2024:
      As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs."
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  3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#MATRICULATE, stativeCategory:English stative verbs#MATRICULATE) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
  4. (proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#MATRICULATE) To graduate (from a school or course of study).
    • 2004 May 13, Robert I. Rotberg, Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 151:
      [...] fewer than 100 indigenous Namibians have matriculated (graduated) annually from secondary school. In 1982 the number fell to 20.
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    • 2014 November 14, Barry Gough, From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN:
      One of six distinguished brothers who matriculated from the school, he had enlisted together with two of his brothers, Christian and Gustav (or Gus).
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    • 2017 October 12, Philip D. Smith, From Praha to Prague: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 80:
      ... matriculated from their nearby, isolated farming villages to come to the larger and more prosperous town. In the first year of West, Czechs founded both a Catholic parish and a Moravian Brethren church. By 1910, Czech businesses were []
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    • 2024 July 5, Mervyn Coetzee, Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam, Trauma, Injustice and Identity: Investigating an Egalitarian and Autoethnographic Approach to Analysing Students’ Personal Language Narratives, Ethics International Press, →ISBN, page 195:
      It was soon after matriculating (graduating from high school), that these words would ring true for Mervyn. He and one of his classmates returned to Mr. Meyer and were excited to inform him that they had passed their final high school examinations []
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Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

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  1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MATRICULATE, later chiefly ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#MATRICULATE, participial adjective) Matriculated.

Noun

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  1. A person admitted to membership in a society or college. [1712]
    Synonym: matriculant
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Spanish

Verb

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  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of matricular combined with te
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