colegial

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collēgiālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.le.ʒiˈaw/ [ko.le.ʒɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ko.leˈʒjaw/ [ko.leˈʒjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.lɨˈʒjal/ [ku.lɨˈʒjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.lɨˈʒjal/ [ku.lɨˈʒjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.lɨˈʒja.li/

• Hyphenation: co‧le‧gi‧al

Adjective

colegial m or f (plural colegiais)

1. collegiate
2. (relational) university

Related terms

• colégio

Further reading

• “colegial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French collégial. By surface analysis, colegiu +‎ -al.

Adjective

colegial m or n (feminine singular colegială, masculine plural colegiali, feminine and neuter plural colegiale)

1. collegial

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	colegial		colegială		colegiali	colegiale
	definite	colegialul		colegiala		colegialii	colegialele
genitive- dative	indefinite	colegial		colegiale		colegiali	colegiale
	definite	colegialului		colegialei		colegialilor	colegialelor

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin collēgiālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koleˈxjal/ [ko.leˈxjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: co‧le‧gial

Adjective

colegial m or f (masculine and feminine plural colegiales)

1. collegiate

Derived terms

• colegialidad

 

Noun

colegial m (plural colegiales, feminine colegial or colegiala, feminine plural colegiales or colegialas)

1. schoolboy
2. resident of a colegio mayor
   • 2022 October 9, Manuel Viejo, Elisa Silió, “El difícil camino para que no se repitan los gritos del Ahuja: “Sois unas pedazo de mierdas. ¡Putas!””, in El País‎^[1]:

     Las colegialas que dan la cara ante los medios, sin embargo, no se sintieron insultadas como su dirección cuando escucharon a los colegiales del Ahuja.

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Noun

colegial m (plural colegiales)

1. (Chile) austral negrito, Patagonian negrito

   Synonyms: negrito, negrito austral, sobrepuesto

2. (Chile) bread pudding

Derived terms

bird

• colegial del norte (“Andean negrito”)

 

Related terms

• colegio

 

Further reading

• “colegial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10