colegiado

Forms

colegiado (feminine colegiada, masculine plural colegiados, feminine plural colegiadas)^[1]

Etymology

It is the past participle from Spanish colegiar (“to enrol in a professional body”), used as an adjective and a noun.^[2][1] The Spanish Wiktionary analyses it instead as from Spanish colegio + -ado.^[3] Corominas lists the verb and its participle among the learned derivatives of colegio (first recorded in 1433), which is collegium (“body of colleagues, association”).^[4][5] The Latin noun is itself derived from collēga (“colleague in office”).^[4]

Echegaray and Barcia compare Catalan col·legiat.^[6][7] The older adjective of the Siete Partidas, which describes a church served by a chapter of clergy, is recorded about two centuries before the noun it is now felt to derive from.^[5][8][9][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The DEMel and the dictionary of Alfonso X's prose first record the word in the Siete Partidas (1256–1265), in the phrase eglesia collegiada, which the text explains as conuentual “conventual”, a church with its own body of clergy.^[8][9]

Semantic evolution

In 1817 the Academy's dictionary listed it, marked as Aragonese, for physicians, apothecaries, notaries and attorneys who belonged to the colleges of their professions.^[10] The 1869 edition, unlike that of 1843, extended it to other bodies that form a community.^[11] Records from the Americas, from 1789 on, speak of cuerpos colegiados “collegiate bodies”.^[12]

Today a colegiado is above all someone registered with a professional body, which allows them to practise, and the adjective also describes a court or committee made up of several members who decide together (órgano colegiado, tribunal colegiado).^[13][2][14] In sport, especially football, the referee is el colegiado, because referees belong to an officially recognised referees' college.^[2][13][1]

Timeline

• 1256–1265 – the Siete Partidas speak of a eglesia collegiada, a collegiate church.^[8][9]
• 1789 – first record from the Americas, in New Granada.^[12]
• 1817 – the Academy's dictionary enters it as an Aragonese adjective for members of professional colleges.^[10]
• 1869 – the Academy extends the sense to other corporate bodies.^[11]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of a body: constituted as a colegio or professional association.^[2][13]
2. Of a person: registered as a member of a professional body and so qualified to practise: Solo un abogado colegiado puede firmar la demanda.^[13][14][1]
3. Of a decision or body: made or formed by several people of the same rank acting jointly, as in tribunal colegiado.^[2][13]

Noun

1. (sports) A referee who belongs to an officially recognised referees' body.^[2][14][1]
2. A member of a professional body.^[14]

Related words

• colegiar
• colegio
• colega
• colegiata
• Latin collegium

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. colegiado
3. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org
4. ^ a b Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 2, 136
5. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. colega
6. ^ Echegaray, Eduardo de (1887–1889), Diccionario general etimológico de la lengua española, 5 vols., Madrid: José María Faquineto
7. ^ Barcia, Roque (1880–1883), Primer diccionario general etimológico de la lengua española, 5 vols., Madrid: Establecimiento Tipográfico de Álvarez Hermanos
8. ^ a b c Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel), data publication 2026 (CC BY-SA), Universität Rostock, p. s.v. colegiado
9. ^ a b c Kasten, Lloyd A.; Nitti, John J.; Gago Jover, Francisco (2002–), Diccionario de la prosa castellana del Rey Alfonso X, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (electronic edition 2024), p. s.v. colegiado
10. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real
11. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1869), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 11th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de Don Manuel Rivadeneyra
12. ^ a b Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. colegiado
13. ^ a b c d e Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. colegiado
14. ^ a b c d Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial