matricula

See also: Matricula, matrícula, and matriculá

English

Etymology

From Latin matricula (“register”).

Noun

matricula (plural matriculas or matriculae)

1. (obsolete) A register of students who are enrolled.
   • 1803, The Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances of the University of King's College at Windsor, in the Province of Nova-Scotia:

     It shall be the office of the Registrar, to keep the matricula, or register, in which the names of all persons who shall be admitted members of the University shall be inrolled; to attend the Convocation as secretary, and to keep registers, in which all degrees conferred, and other proceeding of the Convocation, shall be entered.

   • 1847, Nova Scotia. House of Assembly, Journals and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia:

     The Bachelor in Arts shall be entitled to this Degree after his name shall have been seven years at least on the matricula, and he shall have paid his Library and other fees.

   • 2003, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Walter Rüegg, A History of the University in Europe, →ISBN, page 235:

     Depending on the university, up to three different fees could be payable: fees for registration in the general rectoral matricula, in the faculty matricula, and, if there were university nations, in their matriculae as well — this being payment for the documentary and social act of admission to the university and its sectional parts.

2. (obsolete) A document indicating that a student has passed a course of study.
   • 1792, Joseph Townsend, A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787:

     To graduate, if in arts, the student must, for a bachelor's degree, have obtained two matriculas, that is, he must have attended lectures two years, and must, at the public examination, have been twice approved; and to be master of arts, he must have gained three matriculas.

3. An identification card issued by the Mexican consulate.
   • 2003, Backgrounder:

     Safeguards are not in place to prevent multiple issuance of matriculas to the same individual; in fact, the INS has already reported finding multiple cards in different names issued to the same person.

   • 2003, The Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005 (State Department Authorization); and the Sense of Congress that the U.N. Should Remove the Economic Sanctions Against Iraq Completely and Without Condition, →ISBN, page 370:

     I happen to agree completely with Mr. Gallegly that really the only people, or certainly the largest number of people, who could possibly benefit by the use of the matricula in the United States are those people living here illegally. Otherwise, you have identification that this government offers to you when you come in.

   • 2011, Juan Rodriguez, The Congo: Where Men Are Eaten, →ISBN, page 79:

     After that, I had to give my matricula accompanied by my special number, proving who I was.

Catalan

Verb

matricula

1. inflection of matricular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: matriculas, matriculât

Verb

matricula

1. third-person singular past historic of matriculer

Latin

Etymology

From mātrīx (“list, register”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːˈtriː.ku.la/, [mäːˈt̪riːkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈtri.ku.la/, [mäˈt̪riːkulä]

Noun

mātrīcula f (genitive mātrīculae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) written list, register

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mātrīcula	mātrīculae
Genitive	mātrīculae	mātrīculārum
Dative	mātrīculae	mātrīculīs
Accusative	mātrīculam	mātrīculās
Ablative	mātrīculā	mātrīculīs
Vocative	mātrīcula	mātrīculae

Derived terms

• mātrīculārius

Related terms

• māter
• mātercula
• māterfamiliās
• māternitās
• māternus
• mātertera
• mātricīda
• mātricīdium
• mātrimus
• mātrimōnium
• mātrimōniālis
• mātruēlis
• mātrālis
• mātrēscō
• mātrīcālis
• mātrīx
• mātrōna
• mātrōnālis
• mātrōnātus

 

Descendants

• Albanian: ndrikull (“midwife”)
• Catalan: matrícula
• English: matricula
• Old Francoprovençal: maguelli
  • Franco-Provençal: margueilli
• French: matricule
• Galician: matrícula
• Hunsrik: Matricula
• Italian: matricola
• Portuguese: matrícula
• Romanian: matricula
• Spanish: matrícula, madrilla

References

• “matricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• matricula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• matricula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

matricula

1. inflection of matricular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French matriculer.

Verb

a matricula (third-person singular present matriculează, past participle matriculat) 1st conj.

1. to assign a serial number to.

Conjugation

    conjugation of matricula (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a matricula
gerund			matriculând
past participle			matriculat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	matriculez	matriculezi	matriculează	matriculăm	matriculați	matriculează
	imperfect	matriculam	matriculai	matricula	matriculam	matriculați	matriculau
	simple perfect	matriculai	matriculași	matriculă	matricularăm	matricularăți	matriculară
	pluperfect	matriculasem	matriculaseși	matriculase	matriculaserăm	matriculaserăți	matriculaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să matriculez	să matriculezi	să matriculeze	să matriculăm	să matriculați	să matriculeze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		matriculează			matriculați
	negative		nu matricula			nu matriculați

Spanish

Verb

matricula

1. inflection of matricular:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative