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collegio

college

noun kol-LEH-joh Less Common
People & Society Education

Origin: Latin collegium (community of colleagues)

Also means

boarding school

Usage Note

Collegio does not map cleanly onto 'college' in the Anglo-American sense; it more often means a residential boarding school (collegio religioso) or a professional body (collegio dei notai, notarial board). An Italian university faculty is facoltà, not collegio. The plural is collegi.

Examples

"Il collegio accetta studenti da tutta Italia."

Natural Translation

The boarding school accepts students from all over Italy.

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