Definitions for collegia

collegia col·le·gi·um

Spelling: [kuh-lee-jee-uh m]
IPA: /kəˈli dʒi əm/

Collegia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in collegia (acegillo).

Definitions for collegia

noun

  1. Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
  2. a group of ruling officials each with equal rank and power, especially one that formerly administered a Soviet commissariat.

Origin of collegia

From Latin, dating back to 1915-20; See origin at college

Examples for collegia

It granted them only to the poorest classes (collegia tenuiorum) and had the strictest laws in readiness for them.

We thus arrive by a second channel at the collegia of the empire.

These corporations were ruined by slave labour, and becoming secret societies, in the time of Augustus were The collegia.

These were known as collegia pietatis, which gave rise to the name, “Pietists.”

The destruction of the working-class family must have been finally achieved by the imperial control of the collegia.

In her temple on the Aventine almost all these collegia had at once their religious centre and their business headquarters.

These were not departments in the sense of bureaus, but collegia.

Just so, in the story of the builders one finds a gap of like length, between the collegia of Rome and the cathedral artists.

The clubs (collegia) were to be merely for the purpose of celebrating funeral rites.

In all these points the collegia of Roman closely resemble the corporations of English law.

Word Value for collegia
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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