collegiate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
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Adjective edit
collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)
- Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
- Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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.
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Translations edit
of, or relating to a college, or college students
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of, or relating to a collegium
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Noun edit
collegiate (plural collegiates)
- (Canada) A high school.
- (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
- (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by 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 […].
- (slang) An inmate of a prison.
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Italian edit
Noun edit
collegiate f
- plural of collegiata
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kol.leː.ɡiˈaː.te/, [kɔlːʲeːɡiˈäːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kol.le.d͡ʒiˈa.te/, [kolːed͡ʒiˈäːt̪e]
Noun edit
collēgiāte
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college + -at.
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Adjective edit
collegiate (rare)
- (of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.
- Synonym: collegial
- (rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.
Descendants edit
- English: collegiate
References edit
- “collēǧiāt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.