collegiatus

Forms

collēgiātus m (genitive collēgiātī); second declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin collēgium + -ātus², “member of a collegium”.^[2][1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It first appears in the Theodosian Code (438 AD), for a member of a corporation or guild.^[4][5]

Semantic evolution

In Late Latin it named members of the lower guilds; the Code of Justinian has a title on them, and Georges explains them as firemen.^[6][4] The Notitia of Constantinople describes collegiati drawn from various corporations to help at fires,^[3] and Isidore of Seville explains the name from their being assigned from their college to guard criminals, calling them a very low class of men.^[3] In Medieval Latin it became an adjective for what belongs to a chapter of canons or a convent, above all in ecclesia collegiata, a collegiate church, as opposed to a cathedral.^[7][5][8] Later it also named a member of a chapter or of a university college.^[9]

Timeline

• 438 AD – The Theodosian Code uses it of guild members.^[4][5]
• c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville explains the name.^[3][5]
• 11th century – A text in the MLW uses it as an adjective of a church served by canons.^[7][5]
• 1276 – A Hungarian document speaks of collegiate churches beside cathedrals.^[8]
• mid-15th century – English borrows the adjective as collegiate.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. A fellow member of a collēgium, a member of a guild or corporation.^[2][4][11]
2. (Medieval Latin) A member of a chapter of canons; a member of a university college.^[9]

Adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) Collegiate, belonging to a chapter of canons: ecclēsia collēgiāta “collegiate church”.^[7][5][8]
2. (Medieval Latin) Of a convent, monastic.^[7]
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Corporate, of a group.^[12]

Related words

• collēga
• English collegiate

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
7. ^ a b c d Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
8. ^ a b c Bartal, Antal, et al. (1987–), Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi Hungariae, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; online ed. ELTE
9. ^ a b Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum / Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích (1977–), Prague: Academia; electronic version, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
10. ^ Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
11. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
12. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson