colleague

English

Etymology

From Middle French collegue, from Latin collega (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + legare (“to send on an embassy”), from lex (“law”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wikipedia colleague (plural colleagues)

1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.

Synonyms

• coworker
• workmate
• See also Wikisaurus:associate

Related terms

• collegial
• collegiate

See also

Do not confuse with:

• college (distant cognate, from Latin)
• collage

Translations

fellow member of a profession

• Arabic: زميل (ar) (zamīl) m, زميلة (ar) (zamīla) f
• Armenian: գործընկեր (hy) (gorçënker)
• Bulgarian: колега (bg) (koléga) m, колежка (bg) (koléžka) f
• Catalan: col·lega (ca), company (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同事 (cmn) (tóngshì), 同僚 (cmn) (tóngliáo)

• Czech: kolega (cs) m
• Danish: kollega (da) c
• Dutch: collega (nl)
• Faroese: starvsfelagi (fo) m, arbeiðsfelagi (fo) m
• Finnish: kollega (fi), virkaveli (fi), virkatoveri (fi)
• French: confrère (fr), collègue (fr) m and f
• Georgian: კოლეგა (ka) (kolega)
• German: Kollege (de) m, Kollegin (de) f, Mitarbeiter (de) m, Mitarbeiterin (de) f
• Hebrew: עמית (he) ('amyt), עמיתה (he) ('amita) f
• Hungarian: kolléga (hu), kartárs (hu)
• Italian: collega (it) m and f
• Japanese: 同僚 (ja) (どうりょう, dōryō)
• Jèrriais: collègue m and f
• Korean: 동료 (ko) (dongnyo) (同僚 (ko)), 동업자 (ko) (dong-eopja)

• Latin: collēga (la) m
• Macedonian: колега (mk) (koléga) m, колешка (mk) (koléška) f
• Norwegian: kollega (no) m
• Persian: همکار (fa) (hamkâr)
• Polish: kolega (pl) m, koleżanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: colega (pt) m and f
• Romanian: coleg (ro) m, colegă (ro) f
• Romansch: collavuratur (rm) m, collavuratura (rm) f
• Russian: коллега (ru) (kolléga) m and f, сослуживец (ru) (soslužívec) m, сотрудник (ru) (sotrúdnik) m, сотрудница (ru) (sotrúdnica) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: колега (sh) m and f

  Roman: kolega (sh) m and f

• Slovak: kolega (sk) m, kolegyňa (sk) f
• Spanish: colega (es) m and f, compañero (es) m
• Swedish: kollega (sv), arbetskamrat (sv) c, medarbetare (sv) c
• Telugu: సహోద్యోగి (sahOdyOgi)
• Turkish: çalışma arkadaşı (tr), meslektaş (tr)
• Vietnamese: đồng nghiệp (vi)

Verb

colleague (third-person singular simple present colleagues, present participle colleaguing, simple past and past participle colleagued)

1. To unite or associate with another or with others.

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External links

• colleague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• colleague in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911