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collegium
collegium
English
Noun
collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)
- (in Russia) A committee or council
- (in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
collēga (“colleague”) + -ium
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kolˈleː.ɡi.um/
Noun
collēgium n (genitive collēgiī); second declension
- college (several senses)
- school
- corporation, guild, company
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | collēgium | collēgia |
| genitive | collēgiī | collēgiōrum |
| dative | collēgiō | collēgiīs |
| accusative | collēgium | collēgia |
| ablative | collēgiō | collēgiīs |
| vocative | collēgium | collēgia |
Derived terms
- collēgiālis
- collēgiārius
- collēgiātus
Related terms
Descendants
- English: college, collegium
- Irish: coláiste
- Italian: collegio
- Portuguese: colégio
- Spanish: colegio
- Swedish: kollegium
References
- collegium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- COLLEGIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “collegium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- collegium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collegium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- collegium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin