collectio

Latin

Etymology

From collēctus +‎ -tiō, from colligō (“collect together”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kolˈleːk.ti.oː/, [kɔlˈlʲeːkt̪ioː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlek.t͡si.o/, [kolˈlɛkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

collēctiō f (genitive collēctiōnis); third declension

The act of collecting together; accumulation, collection.
(rhetoric) A summary, recapitulation, summing up.
An argumentation, reasoning, conclusion, inference, syllogism.
(medicine) A swelling, tumor, abscess.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	collēctiō	collēctiōnēs
Genitive	collēctiōnis	collēctiōnum
Dative	collēctiōnī	collēctiōnibus
Accusative	collēctiōnem	collēctiōnēs
Ablative	collēctiōne	collēctiōnibus
Vocative	collēctiō	collēctiōnēs

Related terms

collēcta
collēctāculum
collēctāneus
collēctārius
collēctē
collēcticius
collēctim
collēctīvus
collēctor
collēctus
colligō

Descendants

Inherited:
- Galician: collizo
- Old French: quieuçon
Borrowed:
- → Catalan: col·lecció
- → Dutch: collectie
- → English: collection
- → French: collection
- → Galician: colección
- → German: Kollektion
- → Italian: collezione
- → Occitan: colleccion
- → Portuguese: coleção
- → Romanian: colecție, colecțiune
- → Russian: колле́кция (kollékcija)
- → Spanish: colección

References

“collectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
collectio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
collectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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