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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collēgium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kolˈlɛ.d͡ʒo/
- Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
- Hyphenation: col‧lè‧gio
Noun
collegio m (plural collegi)
- college (educational institution or division thereof)
- boarding school
- boarding house, dormitory
- (politics) electoral college
- (in proper nouns) college (group sharing common purpose or goals)
- (obsolete) a group of people who live together, taken as a whole
Further reading
- collegio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
collēgiō
- dative/ablative singular of collēgium
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