college: [14] College comes from the same source as colleague. Latin collēga, literally ‘one chosen to work with another’, a compound based on the stem of lēgāre ‘choose’. An ‘a(chǎn)ssociation of collēgae, partnership’ was thus a collēgium, whence (possibly via Old French college) English college. For many hundreds of years this concept of a ‘corporate group’ was the main semantic feature of the word, and it was not really until the 19th century that, via the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge universities, the notion of ‘a(chǎn)cademic institution’ overtook it. => colleague, delegate, legal, legitimate
college (n.)
"body of scholars and students within a university," late 14c., from Old French college "collegiate body" (14c.), from Latin collegium "community, society, guild," literally "association of collegae" (see colleague). At first meaning any corporate group, the sense of "academic institution" attested from 1560s became the principal sense in 19c. via use at Oxford and Cambridge.
雙語例句
1. I've had the hots for him ever since he came to college.
自從他來上大學(xué)后，我就對他春心萌動。
來自柯林斯例句
2. We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time.
我們那時在同一所學(xué)院，當(dāng)時只招男生。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder.