studiumn.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 379 Those schooles of learning which wee call Academies or Vniversities, that age termed Studia, that is, Studies [L. Quae enim nos academias vocamus, illa aetas studia dixit].

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 342 The Studium, called the Sapienza, where are the public Schools [in Siena].

1834 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 215 The oldest word for an unexclusive institution of higher education, was studium, and studium generale—terms employed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and retained in those which followed.

1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. 11 777 The studium which could boast that it attracted students from very different quarters became known as a studium generale.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 602/1 Immediately after 1168 allusions to Oxford as a studium and a studium generale begin to multiply.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 361/2 Out of such enterprises developed the medieval university. It grew and was not made. Later, of course, there was deliberate creation: there was the studium at Naples, brought into being by Frederick II.

1961 P. Kibre Scholarly Privileges Middle Ages ii. 19 The measure requiring the rectors..to take the oath that they would not seek the removal of the studium from the city [of Bologna] was retained.

2002 Oxoniensia 66 5 A fourth major religious house in Oxford was the Cistercian abbey of Rewley. This was a studium, founded in 1281, the first settlement of monk-students at an English university.