Etymology

postcollege

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Today it means: Occurring after one's college, especially undergraduate, education Full definition →

English college ← Middle English college ← Middle French college
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Latincollēgium
  8. Old Frenchcollege
  9. Middle Frenchcollege
  10. Middle Englishcollege
  11. Englishcollege
  12. English todaypostcollege

From post- + college.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.