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] although English retains the form of the French descendant aigre (sick) in words such as "vinegar" (from vin aigre, "sick wine") and "alegar" (a back-formation substituting "ale" for the root meaning "wine").
[edit] References
- ^ Pearsall, Judy (ed.) (1998). The new Oxford dictionary of English. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019861263X.
- ^ Webster's Online Dictionary "English Translation: aegrotare". http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Latin/aegrotare. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
