Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to matriculate
Participle: matriculated
Gerund: matriculating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | matriculate |
| you | matriculate |
| he;she;it | matriculates |
| we | matriculate |
| you | matriculate |
| they | matriculate |
Perfect
| I | have matriculated |
| you | have matriculated |
| he;she;it | has matriculated |
| we | have matriculated |
| you | have matriculated |
| they | have matriculated |
Past
| I | matriculated |
| you | matriculated |
| he;she;it | matriculated |
| we | matriculated |
| you | matriculated |
| they | matriculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had matriculated |
| you | had matriculated |
| he;she;it | had matriculated |
| we | had matriculated |
| you | had matriculated |
| they | had matriculated |
Future
| I | will matriculate |
| you | will matriculate |
| he;she;it | will matriculate |
| we | will matriculate |
| you | will matriculate |
| they | will matriculate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have matriculated |
| you | will have matriculated |
| he;she;it | will have matriculated |
| we | will have matriculated |
| you | will have matriculated |
| they | will have matriculated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | matriculate |
| you | matriculate |
| he;she;it | matriculate |
| we | matriculate |
| you | matriculate |
| they | matriculate |
Perfect
| I | have matriculated |
| you | have matriculated |
| he;she;it | have matriculated |
| we | have matriculated |
| you | have matriculated |
| they | have matriculated |
Imperfect
| I | matriculated |
| you | matriculated |
| he;she;it | matriculated |
| we | matriculated |
| you | matriculated |
| they | matriculated |
Pluperfect
| I | had matriculated |
| you | had matriculated |
| he;she;it | had matriculated |
| we | had matriculated |
| you | had matriculated |
| they | had matriculated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would matriculate |
| you | would matriculate |
| he;she;it | would matriculate |
| we | would matriculate |
| you | would matriculate |
| they | would matriculate |
Perfect
| I | would have matriculated |
| you | would have matriculated |
| he;she;it | would have matriculated |
| we | would have matriculated |
| you | would have matriculated |
| they | would have matriculated |
Imperative
| you | matriculate |
| we | Let's matriculate |
| you | matriculate |
Verbs conjugated like 'matriculate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'matriculate'
exmatriculate,
triculate,
articulate,
graticulate,
machicolate,
maculate,
malarticulate,
mandibulate,
manipulate,
masculate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1577, "to admit a student to a college by enrolling his name on the register," from M.L. *matriculare "to register," from L.L. matricula "public register," dim. of L. matrix (gen. matricis) "list, roll," also "sources, womb" (see matrix). The connection of senses in the L. word seems to be via confusion of Gk. metra "womb" (from meter "mother") and an identical Gk. word meaning "register, lot." Evidently L. matrix was used to translate both, though it originally only shared meaning with one.
2. The adjective is first attested in 1487, in Middle English, the verb in 1557; borrowed from Latin mātrīculātus, perfect passive participle of mātrīculō (“to register”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from mātrīcula (“public register”), a diminutive of Latin mātrīx (“list”). By surface analysis, matricul(a) + -ate.
Sample Sentences
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As LGBTQ and ally-identified students matriculate to the workforce, many will come with an understanding of the importance of honoring personal pronouns and allowing for gender-inclusive pronouns such as "they, them, theirs." [2024 November 30 (last accessed), “Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace”, in HRC Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
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[...] fewer than 100 indigenous Namibians have matriculated (graduated) annually from secondary school. In 1982 the number fell to 20. [2004 May 13, Robert I. Rotberg, Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 151:]
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One of six distinguished brothers who matriculated from the school, he had enlisted together with two of his brothers, Christian and Gustav (or Gus). [2014 November 14, Barry Gough, From Classroom to Battlefield: Victoria High School and the First World War, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN:]
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... matriculated from their nearby, isolated farming villages to come to the larger and more prosperous town. In the first year of West, Czechs founded both a Catholic parish and a Moravian Brethren church. By 1910, Czech businesses were[…] [2017 October 12, Philip D. Smith, From Praha to Prague: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 80:]
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It was soon after matriculating (graduating from high school), that these words would ring true for Mervyn. He and one of his classmates returned to Mr. Meyer and were excited to inform him that they had passed their final high school examinations[…] [2024 July 5, Mervyn Coetzee, Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam, Trauma, Injustice and Identity: Investigating an Egalitarian and Autoethnographic Approach to Analysing Students’ Personal Language Narratives, Ethics International Press, →ISBN, page 195:]