collegiate

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).

• IPA^(key): /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/

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collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
   • 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 June 2023:

     In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.

2. Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (historical, Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium.
   • 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:

     To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.

collegiate (plural collegiates)

1. (Canada) A high school.
2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
3. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:

     those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].

4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.

collegiate f

1. plural of collegiata

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔl.leː.ɡiˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kol.le.d͡ʒiˈaː.t̪e]

collēgiāte

1. vocative singular of collēgiātus

• colegyat, collegiat

From Medieval Latin collēgiātus; equivalent to college +‎ -at.

• IPA^(key): /kɔlˈɛːdʒiaːt(ə)/, /ˈkɔlɛdʒiaːt(ə)/

collegiate (rare)

1. (of a church) Ruled by a grouping of clergy; collegial.

   Synonym: collegial

2. (rare) Collected; formed into a grouping or assembly.

• English: collegiate

• “collēǧiāt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 December 2018.