Where does “reculegere” come from?
reculegere (Romanian) comes from Romanian reculege, from French recueillir, from Old French recoillir, from Latin recolligere, from Latin recolligo, from Latin colligō, from Latin com-, from Latin con- — resin, gum; to say, speak.
reculegere (Romanian): recollection
Definitions
- recollection
Ancestry of “reculegere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | reculege | to collect one's thoughts, to reflect |
| 2 | French | recueillir | to collect, gather; to obtain, to win; to take in |
| 3 | Old French | recoillir | to gather up; to collect up |
| 4 | Latin | recolligere | present active infinitive of recolligō; to... |
| 5 | Latin | recolligo | I recover, gather again, collect; pull oneself... |
| 6 | Latin | colligō | to gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest |
| 7 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 8 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |