Etymograph

English

exmatriculate

Exmatriculate comes from German exmatrikulieren ‘to deregister, to unenroll’, and goes back to matrikulieren.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentmatrikulieren
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentexmatrikulieren‘to deregister, to unenroll’
  3. Englishtodayexmatriculate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentmatrikulieren
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentexmatrikulieren‘to deregister, to unenroll’
  3. Englishtodayexmatriculate

Formed from ex- + matriculate

Proto-Indo-European *eǵ-

Latin ex ‘out of, from’

English ex-

Latin mātrīculātus

English matriculate

Today it means

verb To deregister or unenroll (a student in Germany or Austria), as a result of graduation, expulsion, or voluntary termination of courses.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / German matrikulieren / exmatriculate