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Abitur^¹

/ˌæbiˈtʊə(ɹ)/ UK
/ˌæbɪˈtʊə(ɹ)/ UK
/ˌæbiˈtʊɹ/ US
/ˌæbɪˈtʊɹ/ US

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Borrowed from German Abitur.

noun Abiturs · abitur

A group of matriculation exams taken in the final year of German secondary school. 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.

abitur^²

noun abiturs

Alternative letter-case form of Abitur

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noun group of exams taken in the final year of German secondary school

Português	Abitur
Deutsch	Abitur

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@misc{abitur_2026,
  title = {abitur},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/abitur},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}