collegio

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collēgium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈlɛ.d͡ʒo/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
• Hyphenation: col‧lè‧gio

Noun

collegio m (plural collegi)

1. college (educational institution or division thereof)
2. boarding school
3. boarding house, dormitory
4. (politics) electoral college
5. (in proper nouns) college (group sharing common purpose or goals)
6. (obsolete) a group of people who live together, taken as a whole

Further reading

• collegio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• gelicolo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔlˈleː.ɡi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kolˈlɛː.d͡ʒi.o]

Noun

collēgiō

1. dative/ablative singular of collēgium

References

• "collegio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Noun

collegio m (plural collegios)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of colégio.
   • 1933, Graciliano Ramos, chapter XII, in Cahetés‎^[1], 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Schmidt, page 80:

     Em seguida, movendo o braço roliço carregado de aros, cobras de ouro que tilintaram, reprehendeu-me com o dedinho erguido, lembrou-me que fazia um mez que viera do collegio e ainda não me vira ali.

     Next, moving her plump arm bustling with hoops, golden snakes that ringed, she reminded me a month had passed since she came back from the convent and she hadn’t yet seen me there.