collegio

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin collēgium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kolˈlɛ.d͡ʒo/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
  • Hyphenation: col‧lè‧gio

Noun

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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

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

Anagrams

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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collēgiō

  1. dative/ablative singular of collēgium

References

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