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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish colegio.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ko‧le‧hi‧yo
- IPA(key): /koleˈhijo/
Noun
koléhiyo
- college
- Synonym: unibersidad
See also
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish colegio, from Latin collegium, from collēga + -ium. Displaced by elementarya. The sense "college" is a semantic loan from English college, introduced during the American colonial era.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koleˈhijo/
- Hyphenation: ko‧le‧hi‧yo
Noun
kolehiyo
- (obsolete or historical) school, especially an elementary school, during the Spanish colonial era
- college
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:kolehiyo.
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish colegio, from Latin collegium. The sense “college” is a semantic loan from English college.
Pronunciation
Noun
koléhiyó (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜒᜑᜒᜌᜓ)
- college
- Synonym: dalubhasaan
- (by extension) university
- Synonyms: pamantasan, unibersidad
- (obsolete) secondary school
- Synonyms: sekundarya, hay-iskul
Further reading
- “kolehiyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018