Aegrotat
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Aegrotat (English: he or she is sick),[1] pronounced eegrohtat, is a medical certificate of illness excusing student's sickness. The term is used primarily in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, in the context of degrees and courses considered as passed by a student too ill to finish the appropriate material. Aegrotat is the only surviving remnant in English of the Latin verb aegrotare (English: fall ill, make ill)[2].
[edit] References
- ^ Pearsall, Judy (ed.) (1998). The New Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861262-X.
- ^ Webster's Online Dictionary "English Translation: aegrotare". http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Latin/aegrotare. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
