collegiate

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English

Etymology

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/
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Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

  1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  2. Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (historical, Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium.
    • 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:
      To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

  1. (Canada) A high school.
  2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  3. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
      those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
  4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.

Translations

Italian

Noun

collegiate f

  1. plural of collegiata

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

collēgiāte

  1. vocative singular of collēgiātus

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔlˈɛːdʒiaːt(ə)/, /ˈkɔlɛdʒiaːt(ə)/

Adjective

collegiate (rare)

  1. (of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.
    Synonym: collegial
  2. (rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.

Descendants

  • English: collegiate

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