kollegium

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See also: kollégium and Kollegium

Danish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin collegium.

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Noun

kollegium n

  1. dormitory (housing complex where students live for rent, consisting of single rooms, shared facilities and possibly smaller apartments)
  2. collegium (circle of persons who exercise a common power or who have a professional community)

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The fact that the -ium ending is dropped in inflections has given rise to the (sometimes proscribed) spelling kollegie. Similar words affected by this process are gymnasium, ambolatorium.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kollegium n (plural kollegi)

  1. a meeting of colleagues; teaching staff or faculty at a school; doctors at a hospital

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Swedish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collegium. Doublet of kollega and kollegialitet.

Noun

kollegium n

  1. a meeting of colleagues; teaching staff or faculty at a school; doctors at a hospital
    Jag vill här tacka hela kollegiet för stödet jag fått.
    I want to take this opportunity to thank all staff for the support they have provided.
  2. a board or committee (as instituted in Sweden in 1634)

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