colegiado

Forms

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

Etymology

It is borrowed from Late Latin collēgiātus (“member of a college; collegiate”), first recorded as an adjective in 1431.^[2][1][3] Michaelis and Wiktionary also read it as colégio with the suffix -ado, and the DLE explains Spanish colegiado as the participle of colegiar.^[4][1][5]

In Latin the word is a noun of inscriptions and the late law codes, “a fellow member of a collegium”, formed from collēgium (“association, college”) with the suffix -ātus.^[6][7][1] That noun is itself formed from collēga (“colleague”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record, from 1431, is of the adjective, “joined with others in a college, forming a collegiate body”.^[2]

Semantic evolution

In church use the adjective described a church that, without being a cathedral, has its own chapter of canons: igreja colegiada.^[8][4][9] The old Caldas Aulete adds a political sense: a government in which the executive is held by a college of members.^[9] Today the adjective mostly describes bodies whose members have equal powers, as in órgão colegiado, and the masculine is used as a noun for such a board.^[2][3][8] The Aulete Digital also uses the noun for a member of such a college or association.^[9]

Timeline

• 1431 – first record of the adjective.^[2]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Joined with others in a colégio; forming a collegiate body.^[2][8][3]
2. (of a governing body) Whose members have equal powers and votes: uma direção colegiada.^[2][3][1]
3. (of a church) collegiate: having its own chapter (cabido) of canons without being a cathedral (catedral).^[8][4][9]

Noun

1. A governing or deliberative body whose members have equal authority: o colegiado do curso.^[8][3][1]
2. A member of a college or corporation (corporação).^[9]

Related words

• colégio
• colega
• colegial
• Latin collēgium

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. colegiado
3. ^ a b c d e Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. colegiado
4. ^ a b c Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo: Melhoramentos (online as Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa, https://michaelis.uol.com.br), p. s.v. colegiado
5. ^ 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
6. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
7. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
8. ^ a b c d e Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. colegiado
9. ^ a b c d e Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. colegiado