different between committee vs collegium

English

Alternative forms

• cttee (contraction)
• cmte (contraction)

Etymology

From commit +? -ee, else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.

Pronunciation

group of persons

• enPR: k?-m?t??, IPA^(key): [k??m?t.i]
• Rhymes: -?ti

person in charge of another

• (UK) IPA^(key): [k?m??ti?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• (US) enPR: käm-?-t??, IPA^(key): [k?m??ti?]
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

committee (plural committees)

1. A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
2. (archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.

Hyponyms

• program committee

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: comité (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Further reading

• committee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

collegium (plural collegia or collegiums)

1. (in Russia) A committee or council
2. (in Ancient Rome) Any of several legal associations

Latin

Alternative forms

• conl?gium

Etymology

coll?ga (“colleague”) +? -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kol?le?.?i.um/, [k?l??l?e??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kol?le.d??i.um/, [k?l?l??d??ium]

Noun

coll?gium n (genitive coll?gi? or coll?g?); second declension

1. colleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.)
2. guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete definition: persons united by the same office or calling or living by some common set of rules)
3. college (several senses)
4. school

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• coll?gi?lis
• coll?gi?rius
• coll?gi?tus

Related terms

• coll?ga

Descendants

• ? English: collegium
• Friulian: coleç
• ? Indonesian: kolegium
• Italian: collegio
• ? Old French: college
  • ? Dutch: college
    • ? Indonesian: kolese
  • ? Middle English: college
    • English: college
      • ? Finnish: college
      • ? Hindi: ????? (k?lij)
      • ? Russian: ??????? (kolledž)
      • ? Serbo-Croatian: koledž
      • ? Slovene: koledž
  • French: collège
    • ? Turkish: kolej
  • ? Middle Irish: coláisde
    • Irish: coláiste
  • Norman: collège
• Piedmontese: colegi
• Portuguese: colégio
• Spanish: colegio
• Swedish: kollegium
• Welsh: coleg

References

• collegium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collegium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• collegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• collegium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collegium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• collegium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin