collegiate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin collegiatus (“colleague”), from collegium (“community, group”)

Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
2. Collegial.

Translations

of, or relating to a college, or college students

• Bulgarian: университетски (bg) (universitetski), академичен (bg) (akademičen)
• Catalan: col·legiat (ca)

• Irish: coláisteach (ga)
• Portuguese: universitário (pt) m, universitária (pt) f; acadêmico (pt) m, acadêmica (pt) f

Derived terms

• collegiate church
• collegiately

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

1. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
2. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:

     those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter [...].

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Italian

Noun

collegiate f

1. Plural form of collegiata

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Latin

Noun

collēgiāte

1. vocative singular of collēgiātus