English → Latin
“college” in Latin
collēgiumcolleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.); guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete defcorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblcooptōto choose, elect; to co-optversōto turn often, keep turning, handle, whirl about, turn over; to treat, manage; to pervert, alter, change
The English word college itself goes back to Latin lēgō, through collēgium.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
college
an assembly (of persons who follow the same pursuit), collegium: corpus: to form into a college those who, etc., collegium constituere ex iis, qui. etc. (Liv., 5, 50, 4): to receive anybody in a college, aliquem in collegium legere or cooptare (cooptare if it is the members themselves who elect).
The place, *domus academica. auditionibus academicis destinata: to be at college (i. e., at a university), *inter academiae cives versari; *in academia studiorum causa, or litterarum causa, versari: to go to college (i. e., uiniversity), in academiam migrare: to belong to a college, inter academiae cives versari, as above.
College = large school, Vid: SCHOOL.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for college?
- The usual Latin words for “college” are collēgium, corpus, cooptō; also versō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.