Abitur
See also: abitur
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæbiˈtʊə(ɹ)/, /ˌæbɪˈtʊə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæbiˈtʊɹ/, /ˌæbɪˈtʊɹ/
Noun edit
Abitur (plural Abiturs)
- A group of exams taken in the final year of German secondary school. [from mid 20th c.]
- [2008, William Clark, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124:
- The oral and written exam became called the Abitur, from Latin abitus, that is, departure from school. The Prussian and later German Abitur amounted to a sort of baccalaureate-equivalent exam, administered outside the university.]
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group of exams taken in the final year of German secondary school
References edit
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abitur”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.
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Attested since the 1890s. A shortening of Abiturium n, itself short for Latin exāmen abiturium, from abituriō (“I wish to leave”), desiderative construction of abeō (“I leave, go off”). For more, see also Abiturient. Compare Physikum.
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Abitur n (strong, genitive Abiturs, plural Abiture)
- (Germany) final exams taken by pupils at the end of their secondary education in Germany and Finland
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Declension of Abitur [neuter, strong]
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- “Abitur” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Abitur” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Abitur” in Duden online
- Abitur on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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Abitur m (uncountable)
- Abitur (group of exams taken in the final year of German secondary school)