collegio

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collēgium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈlɛ.d͡ʒo/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
• Hyphenation: col‧lè‧gio

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• gelicolo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kolˈleː.ɡi.oː/, [kɔlˈlʲeːɡioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈle.d͡ʒi.o/, [kolˈlɛːd͡ʒio]

Noun

collēgiō

1. dative/ablative singular of collēgium

References

• collegio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)