collegium

See also: Collegium

English

Etymology

From Latin collēgium. Doublet of college.

Noun

collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)

1. (in Russia) A committee or council.

   Coordinate term: soviet

2. (historical, in the Russian Empire) A government department or ministry.
3. (historical, in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations.
4. (India) A committee responsible for appointing judges to the Judiciary of India.

Derived terms

• intercollegium

Related terms

• college
• collegiate church

Latin

Alternative forms

• conlēgium

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *lḗǵs?

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *lḗgʰs?

Proto-Italic *lēks

Latin lēx

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin lēgō

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin collēga

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin collēgium

From collēga (“colleague”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

collēgium n (genitive collēgiī or collēgī); second declension

1. colleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.)
2. guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete definition: persons united by the same office or calling or living by some common set of rules)
3. college (several senses)
4. school

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	collēgium	collēgia
genitive	collēgiī collēgī1	collēgiōrum
dative	collēgiō	collēgiīs
accusative	collēgium	collēgia
ablative	collēgiō	collēgiīs
vocative	collēgium	collēgia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• collēgiālis
• collēgiārius
• collēgiātus

Related terms

• collēga

Descendants

• Old Lombard: coleo
• Sardinian: goddeju, boddeu, oddeu

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: col·legi
• → German: Kollegium, Kolleg
• → English: collegium
• → Friulian: coleç (adapted to mimic native sound-changes)
• → Indonesian: kolegium
• → Italian: collegio
• → Old French: college (see there for further descendants)
• → Piedmontese: colegi
• → Portuguese: colégio
• → Romanian: colegiu
• → Spanish: colegio
• → Swedish: kollegium
• → Welsh: coleg

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “collegium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 896

Further reading

• “collegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "collegium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “collegium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “collegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collegium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “collegium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin