collegium

collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)

1. (in Russia) A committee or council
2. (in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations

• conlēgium

collēga (“colleague”) +‎ -ium

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kolˈleː.ɡi.um/, [kɔlˈlʲeːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈle.d͡ʒi.um/, [kolˈlɛːd͡ʒium]

collēgium n (genitive collēgiī or collēgī); second declension

1. colleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.)
2. guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete definition: persons united by the same office or calling or living by some common set of rules)
3. college (several senses)
4. school

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• collēgiālis
• collēgiārius
• collēgiātus

• collēga

Borrowings:

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “collegium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 896

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• collegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “collegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collegium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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