kolehiyo
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Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ko‧le‧hi‧yo
- IPA(key): /koleˈhijo/, [ko.l̪eˈhi.jo]
See also
- elementariya
- eskuwela
- eskuwelahan
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish colegio, from Latin collegium, from collēga + -ium. Displaced by elementarya. The sense "college" is a semantic loan from English college, introduced during the American colonial era.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koleˈhijo/, [kɔ.l̪ɪˈhi.jɔ]
- Hyphenation: ko‧le‧hi‧yo
Noun
kolehiyo
- (obsolete or historical) school, especially an elementary school, during the Spanish colonial era
- college
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:kolehiyo.
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- kolegio — dated
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish colegio, from Latin collegium, from collēga + -ium. The sense “college” is a semantic loan from English college.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /koˈlehio/ [koˈlɛ.hɪ.o]
- Rhymes: -ehio
- Syllabification: ko‧le‧hi‧yo
Noun
koléhiyó (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜎᜒᜑᜒᜌᜓ)
- college
- Synonym: dalubhasaan
- (by extension) university
- Synonyms: pamantasan, unibersidad
- (obsolete) secondary school
- Synonyms: sekundarya, hay-iskul
Related terms
- kolehiyado
- kolehiyal
- kolehiyala
Further reading
- “kolehiyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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