collegiate
English
Etymology
From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collegium (“community, group”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈliːdʒi.ət/
Derived terms
Translations
of, or relating to a college, or college students
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Noun
collegiate (plural collegiates)
- (in Canada) another name for a high school (e.g. some high schools are called collegiates rather than high schools)
- (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
- (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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 […].
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- (slang) An inmate of a prison.
Italian
Latin
Middle English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college + -at.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔlˈɛːdʒiaːt(ə)/, /ˈkɔlɛdʒiaːt(ə)/
Adjective
collegiate (rare)
- (of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.
- (rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.
Synonyms
Descendants
- English: collegiate
References
- “collēǧiāt (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.
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