collēgium

collēgium lat. ‘Amtsgenossenschaft, Amtsgemeinschaft, Korporation, Verein’,

• ursprünglich wohl ‘durch Gesetz gebildete Vereinigung’, zu lat. lēx (Wesfall lēgis) ‘Gesetz’.

collēga “Kollege” +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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