Etymology

precollege

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Today it means: Occurring before, or in preparation for, college Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  4. Proto-Italic*prai
  5. Proto-Italic*prai-
  6. Latinprae-
  7. Middle Englishpre-
  8. Englishpre-
  9. Latincollēgium
  10. Old Frenchcollege
  11. Middle Frenchcollege
  12. Middle Englishcollege
  13. Englishcollege
  14. English todayprecollege

From pre- + college.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.