collegium

American  

[kuh-lee-jee-uhm] / kəˈli dʒi əm /

noun

plural

collegia, collegiums

1. Ecclesiastical. college.

2. a group of ruling officials each with equal rank and power, especially one that formerly administered a Soviet commissariat.

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collegium British  

/ kəˈliːdʒɪəm /

noun

1. (in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department

2. another term for College of Cardinals Sacred College

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Etymology

Origin of collegium

From Latin, dating back to 1915–20; see origin at college

Example Sentences

The process of appointing a judge in India involves recommendations from the collegium followed by a formal approval from the federal government.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021

“The Belarusian KGB initiated my expulsion from the collegium of lawyers under a sham pretext of violation of professional ethics,” Pylchanka told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

You can call it “free agent,” but there's no more collegium — a college as a self-governing body of scholars that's maintaining certain traditions, partly against or in response to the outside world.

From Salon • May 27, 2019

For one thing, the collegium is not mentioned in the Constitution but was developed through the court’s own jurisprudence.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2018

A collegium or corpus must have consisted of at least three persons, who were said to be corporati—habere corpus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various