Why is college French for middle school? I need good reasons, please.?

Question

I can get extra credit and braging rights if I figure out why. Can anyone tell me some reasons. I know the world college is old French from Latin. But no reason. Are there public Middle Schools in France? Or at one time did they only off elementary schooling. Because one of the english definitions is an educational institute not supported by the state...

Answer 1

The origin of the word in French is a grouping of people. We still use it in that way sometimes.

The college as school was originally a collège de professeurs, a grouping of teachers. It appeared around the 12th century. Colleges were a kind of complementary institution to the universities, they were boarding houses for the university students and gave additional teaching.

In France it is now officially the name for secondary school for the first cycle between sixieme and troisieme (sixth grade to third grade), between primary school and the lycée which is the second cycle from seconde to Terminale (2nd grade to last grade), though people use the name lycée for both in common French.

Answer 2

i dont know why but thats what they call it. i guess it just means like schools because the high school is lycee and our college is university

Answer 3

You have to know than the English is a mix of many other languges. Only two king have conquist the England Julius Caesar and William I of England a French king from Normandy.

We can say than the English is a mix of Latin, French, and German languages.

The vocabulary in the two languages (french and English) isn't really different and we have many words in common and many fals friends. Collège is one example. This world (maybe) come from the french and his signification has change with the time.