699: college and ligament Nov 6, 2016

What does higher education have to do with anatomy? It's an odd question but answerable nonetheless, and even without saying "medical school". While college in the United States can refer to any undergraduate program, elsewhere it refers to schools for specific subject training associated with other colleges in a system. The non-American sense is the same as the original Latin, 'collegium' meaning ‘partnership, association,’ ultimately from 'legare' meaning ‘to depute’. This word also gave English 'collegiate', and 'colleague'. This shouldn't be too alarming since the words sound similar and have similar meanings, but 'legare' also gave us 'legate'. 'Legare' is also related to the Latin 'ligare' meaning 'to bind', and gave English 'ligature' and 'ligament'.