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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1892, Garollo|origins=la collega}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''college''' ''m'' (invariable, or plural ''colleges'')^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|college]], which DELI dates to about 1380, from [[fro|college]], from [[la|collegium|t=body of colleagues, guild]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020) The Latin word is formed from [[m|la|collega|t=colleague]] with the suffix “-ium”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The same Latin word gave the learned Italian [[collegio]], and [[roa-oit|coleo]] (Pavia) and [[sc|boddeu|t=group, gathering]] continue it by popular descent.^(LEI|15, 797)^(REW 1935)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI and GRADIT date the word to 1892, in Garollo's encyclopaedic dictionary, in the sense of a secondary school or a college attached to a university in England.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(LEI|15, 797)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Italian the word names the institutions of the English-speaking world only: the residential colleges of the English universities, and in the United States the institution that grants the first degree.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011) The Hoepli encyclopaedia defined it as the institutes, founded at various times, in which the professors and students of an English university live together, and Guido Piovene, writing on America, explained that a man had gone straight from high school into business without ''il College''.^(GDLI) By 1963 a women's magazine used it as an adjective, ''stile college'', for the look of American students.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * About 1380 – English ''college'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1892 – Italian ''college'' appears in Garollo's dictionary.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1963 – A magazine uses ''college'' as an adjective for a style of dress.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # In Britain, a [[m|en|boarding school]] or a residential [[m|en|college]] of a university; in the United States, a college or university faculty granting the first degree.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # The building or buildings that house such a school or college.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[collegio]]

+ * [[collega]]

+ * [[la|collegium]]

+ * [[en|college]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The word is pronounced either in English, /ˈkɒlɪdʒ/, or in an adapted form, /ˈkɔlledʒ/.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}