collegiate

English

Etymology

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
2. Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (historical, Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium.
   • 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:

     To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.

Derived terms

• collegiate church
• collegiately
• collegiateness
• extracollegiate
• intercollegiate
• intracollegiate
• multicollegiate
• noncollegiate
• postcollegiate
• precollegiate
• pseudocollegiate
• semicollegiate
• subcollegiate
• uncollegiate

 

Translations

of, or relating to a college, or college students

• Arabic: جامعي m, جامعية f
• Bulgarian: университетски (universitetski), академичен (bg) (akademičen)
• Catalan: col·legiat (ca)
• Ido: kolegiala (io), kolegia
• Irish: coláisteach
• Manx: colaashtagh
• Portuguese: universitário (pt) m, universitária f; acadêmico (pt) m, acadêmica (pt) f
• Welsh: colegaidd

of, or relating to a collegium

• Polish: kolegialny (pl)
• Russian: колле́жский (ru) (kolléžskij)
• Ukrainian: коле́зький (kolézʹkyj)

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

1. (Canada) A high school.
2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
3. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 […].

4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.

Translations

member of a college

• Ido: kolegiano (io)

Italian

Noun

collegiate f

1. plural of collegiata

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kol.leː.ɡiˈaː.te/, [kɔlːʲeːɡiˈäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kol.le.d͡ʒiˈa.te/, [kolːed͡ʒiˈäːt̪e]

Noun

collēgiāte

1. vocative singular of collēgiātus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colegyat, collegiat

Etymology

From Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔlˈɛːdʒiaːt(ə)/, /ˈkɔlɛdʒiaːt(ə)/

Adjective

collegiate (rare)

1. (of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.

   Synonym: collegial

2. (rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.

Descendants

• English: collegiate

References

• “collēǧiāt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.