collegio

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collēgium.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kolˈlɛ.d͡ʒo/
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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

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kolˈleː.ɡi.oː/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈle.d͡ʒi.o/,

Noun

collēgiō

dative/ablative singular of collēgium

References

collegio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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