collegium
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English
Noun
collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)
- (in Russia) A committee or council
- (in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kolˈleː.ɡi.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kolˈle.d͡ʒi.um/,
Noun
collēgium n (genitive collēgiī or collēgī); second declension
- colleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.)
- guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete definition: persons united by the same office or calling or living by some common set of rules)
- college (several senses)
- school
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | collēgium | collēgia |
| Genitive | collēgiī collēgī1 |
collēgiōrum |
| Dative | collēgiō | collēgiīs |
| Accusative | collēgium | collēgia |
| Ablative | collēgiō | collēgiīs |
| Vocative | collēgium | collēgia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: col·legi
- → German: Kollegium, Kolleg
- → English: collegium
- → Friulian: coleç (adapted to mimic native sound-changes)
- → Indonesian: kolegium
- → Italian: collegio
- → Old French: college (see there for further descendants)
- → Piedmontese: colegi
- → Portuguese: colégio
- → Romanian: colegiu
- → Spanish: colegio
- → Swedish: kollegium
- → Welsh: coleg
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “collegium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 896
Further reading
- “collegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- collegium 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)
- collegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “collegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collegium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “collegium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin