collegium

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English

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Etymology

From Latin collēgium.[1] Doublet of college.

Noun

collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)

  1. (in Russia) A committee or council
  2. (historical, in the Russian Empire) A government department or ministry
  3. (historical, in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “collegium, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
    Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
    Proto-Italic *kom
    Old Latin com
    Latin cum
    Latin con-
    Latin lēx
    Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
    Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
    Proto-Italic *-āō
    Latin -ō
    Latin lēgō
    Latin collēga
    Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
    Proto-Italic *-jōs
    Old Latin -ios
    Latin -ius
    Latin -ium
    Latin collegium

    collēga (“colleague”) +‎ -ium

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    collēgium n (genitive collēgiī or collēgī); second declension

    1. colleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.)
    2. guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete definition: persons united by the same office or calling or living by some common set of rules)
    3. college (several senses)
    4. 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

    Descendants

    • Old Lombard: coleo
    • Sardinian: goddeju, boddeu, oddeu

    Borrowings:

    References

    1. ^ http://www.kit.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?p=13160

    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
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