colegial
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collēgiālis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.le.ʒiˈaw/ [ko.le.ʒɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ko.leˈʒjaw/ [ko.leˈʒjaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.lɨˈʒjal/ [ku.lɨˈʒjaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.lɨˈʒja.li/
- Hyphenation: co‧le‧gi‧al
Adjective
colegial m or f (plural colegiais)
- collegiate
- (relational) university
Related terms
Further reading
- “colegial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French collégial. By surface analysis, colegiu + -al.
Adjective
colegial m or n (feminine singular colegială, masculine plural colegiali, feminine and neuter plural colegiale)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | colegial | colegială | colegiali | colegiale | |||
| definite | colegialul | colegiala | colegialii | colegialele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | colegial | colegiale | colegiali | colegiale | |||
| definite | colegialului | colegialei | colegialilor | colegialelor | ||||
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin collēgiālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koleˈxjal/ [ko.leˈxjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: co‧le‧gial
Adjective
colegial m or f (masculine and feminine plural colegiales)
Derived terms
Noun
colegial m (plural colegiales, feminine colegial or colegiala, feminine plural colegiales or colegialas)
- schoolboy
- resident of a colegio mayor
- 2022 October 9, Manuel Viejo, Elisa Silió, “El difícil camino para que no se repitan los gritos del Ahuja: “Sois unas pedazo de mierdas. ¡Putas!””, in El País[1]:
- Las colegialas que dan la cara ante los medios, sin embargo, no se sintieron insultadas como su dirección cuando escucharon a los colegiales del Ahuja.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
colegial m (plural colegiales)
- (Chile) austral negrito, Patagonian negrito
- Synonyms: negrito, negrito austral, sobrepuesto
- (Chile) bread pudding
Derived terms
bird
- colegial del norte (“Andean negrito”)
Related terms
Further reading
- “colegial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024