A baccalaureate degree or the status of holding such a degree; an intermediate form of the word baccalaureate.
From medieval Latin 'baccalaureus' with the -at suffix, which sometimes appears in medieval Latin academic terminology. This is a less common variant of baccalaureate, showing how the word has multiple forms.
This is one of those words where English kept multiple versions from Latin instead of settling on just one—we have baccalaureate, baccalaureat, and even bachelor all from the same root, showing the messiness of language history.
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