admittatur
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin admittātur (“let him be admitted”), the third-person singular present passive subjunctive form of admittō (“I let in; I admit”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
admittatur (plural admittaturs)
- The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “admittatur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin admittātur (“let him be admitted”), the third-person singular present passive subjunctive form of admittō (“to let in, to admit”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
admittatur m (plural admittaturs)
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ad.mitˈtaː.tur/, [äd̪mɪt̪ˈt̪äːt̪ʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad.mitˈta.tur/, [äd̪mit̪ˈt̪äːt̪ur]
Verb edit
admittātur
Descendants edit
- English: admittatur
- French: admittatur