collegiate

English

Etymology

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (General American); /kəˈli.dʒɪt/:

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Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
   • 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 June 2023:

     In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.

2. Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (historical, Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium.
   • 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:

     To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.

Derived terms

• collegiate church
• collegiately
• collegiateness
• extracollegiate
• intercollegiate
• intracollegiate
• multicollegiate
• noncollegiate
• postcollegiate
• precollegiate
• pseudocollegiate
• semicollegiate
• subcollegiate
• uncollegiate

Translations

of, or relating to a college, or college students

• Arabic: جامعي m, جامعية f
• Bulgarian: университетски (universitetski), академичен (bg) (akademičen)
• Catalan: col·legiat (ca)
• Ido: kolegiala (io), kolegia
• Irish: coláisteach
• Manx: colaashtagh
• Portuguese: universitário (pt) m, universitária f; acadêmico (pt) m, acadêmica (pt) f
• Spanish: colegiado (es)
• Welsh: colegaidd

of, or relating to a collegium

• Polish: kolegialny (pl)
• Russian: колле́жский (ru) (kolléžskij)
• Ukrainian: коле́зький (kolézʹkyj)

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

1. (Canada) A high school.
2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
3. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 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 […].

4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.
6. (lexicography) Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.

   Coordinate terms: learner's, unabridged

Translations

member of a college

• Ido: kolegiano (io)

Italian

Noun

collegiate f

1. plural of collegiata

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔl.leː.ɡiˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kol.le.d͡ʒiˈaː.te]

Noun

collēgiāte

1. vocative singular of collēgiātus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colegyat, collegiat

Etymology

From Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔlˈɛːdʒiaːt(ə)/, /ˈkɔlɛdʒiaːt(ə)/

Adjective

collegiate (rare)

1. (of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.

   Synonym: collegial

2. (rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.

Descendants

• English: collegiate

References

• “collēǧiāt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 December 2018.