collectio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kolˈleːk.ti.oː/, [kɔlˈlʲeːkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlek.t͡si.o/, [kolˈlɛkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

collēctiō f (genitive collēctiōnis); third declension

1. The act of collecting together; accumulation, collection.
2. (rhetoric) A summary, recapitulation, summing up.
3. An argumentation, reasoning, conclusion, inference, syllogism.
4. (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.