1. College, Collège
See College; University
2. Collegium musicum
Since antiquity the Latin term collegium – an association created by a law (Lat. lex) – has had an extremely broad semantic range. In its original sense it denotes a group of officials (e.g. a collegium of public officials), but it can also denote a council, a fraternity, a cooperative (Corporation), a professional association, a guild, a corps, and finally its place of assembly or meeting…