Where does “collect” come from?
Collect comes from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare, from Latin collecta (a gathering or collection), derived from colligo (to gather together), ultimately from Latin ligo (to bind).
collect (English): To gather together; amass; To get; particularly,...
Definitions
- To gather together; amass; To get; particularly,...
Ancestry of “collect”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | collecte | collecting, collection |
| 2 | Latin | collēcta | contribution (in money); collection |
| 3 | Latin | collēctus | gathered, having been gathered; collected, having been collected; assembled, having been assembled |
| 4 | Latin | colligere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | colligō | to gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest |
| 6 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 7 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |