Abiturient
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Abiturient, from Latin abituriō (“I wish to leave”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Abiturient (plural Abiturienten or Abiturients)
- A pupil / student in the German education system who is taking, or who has taken and passed, the Abitur. [from mid 19th c.][1]
- 1875, The Southern Review, volume 16, number 33, page 195:
- If we examine the statistics of the German Gymnasia, we shall find that an Abiturient very rarely leaves a Gymnasium so young as eighteen, [...]
- 1900, Elbert Francis Baldwin, The Educational Value of the Social Side of Student Life, III, In Germany, in The Outlook, page 804:
- He is already an Abiturient, a graduate of a gymnasium, one who has completed enough preparatory studies to turn directly, if need be, to professional work, [...]
- 1958, Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, volume 82, page 528:
- (3) an Abiturient, minimum age 19, needs a practical course of ½ year and 2-2½ years at Chemieschule (day classes). An Abiturient is a student who has passed the matriculation examination after 9 years (8 in Austria) at secondary school.
- 2000 February 22, Peter Alfke, “German Education”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet):
- Well, obviously a bright kid, but: When he got his Abitur (final exam at the Gymnasium), he had already the German equivalent of a 2-year US college education behind him. Nobody in his/her right mind would compare a US high-school graduate with an Abiturient. There is a two-year difference. The US public school system goes for only 12 years, and starts one year earlier than the German one.
Usage notes
[edit]- (German pupil): This noun is often used attributively, as in Abiturient examination.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]students who are taking or have taken the Abitur in the final year of German secondary school
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abiturient”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin abituriēns, present participle of abituriō (“I want to leave”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Abiturient m (weak, genitive Abiturienten, plural Abiturienten, feminine Abiturientin)
- Abiturient; a pupil / student who is taking, or who has taken and passed, the Abitur (roughly, high-school graduate)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Abiturient [masculine, weak]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Abiturient | die | Abiturienten |
genitive | eines | des | Abiturienten | der | Abiturienten |
dative | einem | dem | Abiturienten | den | Abiturienten |
accusative | einen | den | Abiturienten | die | Abiturienten |
Derived terms
[edit]- Einser-Abiturient, Einserabiturient (“person who has passed the Abitur with an A grade”)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: Abiturient
- → Finnish: abiturientti
- ⇒ Finnish: abi
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abiturient
- → Russian: абитурие́нт (abiturijént, abituriént)
- → Azerbaijani: abituriyent
Further reading
[edit]- “Abiturient” in Duden online
- “Abiturient” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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