collegiate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈliːdʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːdʒət/

• Audio (AU):

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Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
2. Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• collegiate church
• collegiately

Translations

of, or relating to a college, or college students

• Bulgarian: университетски (universitetski), академичен (bg) (akademičen)
• Catalan: col·legiat
• Ido: kolegiala, kolegia
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• Irish: coláisteach
• Portuguese: universitário (pt) m, universitária f; acadêmico (pt) m, acadêmica (pt) f
• Welsh: colegaidd

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

1. (in Canada) another name for a high school (e.g. some high schools are called collegiates rather than high schools)
2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
3. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames 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.

Translations

member of a college

• Ido: kolegiano (io)
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Italian

Noun

collegiate f

1. plural of collegiata

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) collēgiāte

1. vocative singular of collēgiātus

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

Synonyms

• collegial

Descendants

• English: collegiate

References

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