collegiate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin collegiatus (“colleague”), from collegium (“community, group”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈliːdʒi.ət/

Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
2. Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

1. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
2. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , II.2.4:

     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 […].

Noun

collegiate f

1. plural of collegiata

Noun

collēgiāte

1. vocative singular of collēgiātus