colligo

Latin

Alternative forms

conligō

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔl.lɪ.ɡoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔl.li.ɡo]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti

Proto-Italic *legō

Latin legō

Latin colligō

From con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”).

Verb

colligō (present infinitive colligere, perfect active collēgī, supine collēctum); third conjugation

to gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest
Synonyms: cōgō, stīpō, glomerō, compellō, congerō, cōnserō, contrahō, cōnstruō, coniungō, cōnferō
- 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 5.3.59–63:
  DĒMEA. Ego istuc vīderō,
  atque ibi favīllae plēna, fūmī ac pollinis
  coquendō sit faxō et molendō. Praeter haec
  merīdiē ipsō faciam ut stipulam colligat.
  Tam excoctam reddam atque ātram quam carbō est.
  DEMEA. I'll see to that,
  and full of soot, smoke and flour
  from the cooking and grinding I'll make her. And, besides that,
  I'll make her collect the straw at noon.
  I'll render her as burnt and black as coal.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 3.18:
  Quā rē concessā laetī ut explōrātā victōriā sarmentīs virgultisquī collēctīs, quibus fossās Rōmānōrum compleant, ad castra pergunt.
  With that concession, as if with victory assured, they go on their way to the camps with twigs and brushwood gathered, to fill the Roman trenches with.
to make thick, thicken; bind or mass together
Synonyms: cumulō, struō, accumulō
to get, gain, acquire, produce, collect
Synonyms: acquīrō, adipīscor, cōnsequor, parō, pariō, lucror, impetrō, mereō, sūmō, emō, comparō, potior, apīscor, obtineō, conciliō, nancīscor, alliciō, possideō

Antonym: āmittō
to think upon, weigh, consider; deduce, conclude, infer, gather, recollect
(in a reflexive sense) to collect or compose oneself, recover one's courage or resolution
(of a number, chiefly a distance) to amount or come to, extend; be reckoned (in a passive sense)

Conjugation

Conjugation of colligō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	colligō	colligis		colligit	colligimus	colligitis		colligunt
	imperfect	colligēbam	colligēbās		colligēbat	colligēbāmus	colligēbātis		colligēbant
	future	colligam	colligēs		colliget	colligēmus	colligētis		colligent
	perfect	collēgī	collēgistī		collēgit	collēgimus	collēgistis		collēgērunt, collēgēre
	pluperfect	collēgeram	collēgerās		collēgerat	collēgerāmus	collēgerātis		collēgerant
	future perfect	collēgerō	collēgeris		collēgerit	collēgerimus	collēgeritis		collēgerint
passive	present	colligor	colligeris, colligere		colligitur	colligimur	colligiminī		colliguntur
	imperfect	colligēbar	colligēbāris, colligēbāre		colligēbātur	colligēbāmur	colligēbāminī		colligēbantur
	future	colligar	colligēris, colligēre		colligētur	colligēmur	colligēminī		colligentur
	perfect	collēctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	collēctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	collēctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	colligam	colligās		colligat	colligāmus	colligātis		colligant
	imperfect	colligerem	colligerēs		colligeret	colligerēmus	colligerētis		colligerent
	perfect	collēgerim	collēgerīs		collēgerit	collēgerīmus	collēgerītis		collēgerint
	pluperfect	collēgissem	collēgissēs		collēgisset	collēgissēmus	collēgissētis		collēgissent
passive	present	colligar	colligāris, colligāre		colligātur	colligāmur	colligāminī		colligantur
	imperfect	colligerer	colligerēris, colligerēre		colligerētur	colligerēmur	colligerēminī		colligerentur
	perfect	collēctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	collēctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	collige		—	—	colligite		—
active	future	—	colligitō		colligitō	—	colligitōte		colliguntō
passive	present	—	colligere		—	—	colligiminī		—
passive	future	—	colligitor		colligitor	—	—		colliguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		colligere		colligī		colligēns		—
future		collēctūrum esse		collēctum īrī		collēctūrus		colligendus, colligundus
perfect		collēgisse		collēctum esse		—		collēctus
future perfect		—		collēctum fore		—		—
perfect potential		collēctūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		colligendī	colligendō		colligendum	colligendō	collēctum		collēctū

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: culeg, culeadziri
- Romanian: culege, culegere
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cogliere
- Neapolitan: cògghie (Apulia)
- Sicilian: cògghiri
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: coglire, collire, cullire, gollire
North Italian:
- Emilian: cójjer
- Friulian: cuei
- Ligurian: cugì
- Piedmontese: cheuje, coj, cujì
- Romansh: cleger, culeir, cler
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: collir
- Franco-Provençal: cuelyir, cuèdre, colyir
- Old French: coillir, cueudre
  - French: cueillir
  - Norman: tchilyi (Jersey)
  - Picard: tcheuiller
  - → English: cull, coil
- Occitan: culhir, culir, cuèlher, còlher
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: cullir, culre (Ribagorçan)
- Old Leonese: coller, *coyer
  - Asturian: coyer, coer, cuyer
  - Leonese: cuchere, cuyere
  - Mirandese: colher
- Old Galician-Portuguese: colher
  - Galician: coller
  - Portuguese: colher
- Spanish: coger
Vulgar Latin: *accolligere (see there for further descendants)
Borrowings:
- → Polish: koligować
- → Portuguese: coligir
- → Spanish: colegir

Etymology 2

From con- +‎ ligō (“tie, bind, fasten”).

Verb

colligō (present infinitive colligāre, perfect active colligāvī, supine colligātum); first conjugation

to bind, tie or fasten together or up, connect; bandage
Synonyms: illigō, ligō, dēligō, cōnserō, cōnfīgō, adalligō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō, vinculō, dēstinō

Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
(figuratively) to unite, combine, connect
Synonyms: applicō, implicō, contribuō, iungō, iniungō, coniungō, consociō, contrahō, conciliō
(figuratively, in the sense of preventing free motion) to restrain, check, stop, hinder
Synonyms: impediō, obstō, moror, arceō, supprimō, cū̆nctor, contineō, retineō, intersaepiō, refrēnō, inclūdō

Conjugation

Conjugation of colligō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	colligō	colligās		colligat	colligāmus	colligātis		colligant
	imperfect	colligābam	colligābās		colligābat	colligābāmus	colligābātis		colligābant
	future	colligābō	colligābis		colligābit	colligābimus	colligābitis		colligābunt
	perfect	colligāvī	colligāvistī		colligāvit	colligāvimus	colligāvistis		colligāvērunt, colligāvēre
	pluperfect	colligāveram	colligāverās		colligāverat	colligāverāmus	colligāverātis		colligāverant
	future perfect	colligāverō	colligāveris		colligāverit	colligāverimus	colligāveritis		colligāverint
passive	present	colligor	colligāris, colligāre		colligātur	colligāmur	colligāminī		colligantur
	imperfect	colligābar	colligābāris, colligābāre		colligābātur	colligābāmur	colligābāminī		colligābantur
	future	colligābor	colligāberis, colligābere		colligābitur	colligābimur	colligābiminī		colligābuntur
	perfect	colligātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	colligātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	colligātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	colligem	colligēs		colliget	colligēmus	colligētis		colligent
	imperfect	colligārem	colligārēs		colligāret	colligārēmus	colligārētis		colligārent
	perfect	colligāverim	colligāverīs		colligāverit	colligāverīmus	colligāverītis		colligāverint
	pluperfect	colligāvissem	colligāvissēs		colligāvisset	colligāvissēmus	colligāvissētis		colligāvissent
passive	present	colliger	colligēris, colligēre		colligētur	colligēmur	colligēminī		colligentur
	imperfect	colligārer	colligārēris, colligārēre		colligārētur	colligārēmur	colligārēminī		colligārentur
	perfect	colligātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	colligātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	colligā		—	—	colligāte		—
active	future	—	colligātō		colligātō	—	colligātōte		colligantō
passive	present	—	colligāre		—	—	colligāminī		—
passive	future	—	colligātor		colligātor	—	—		colligantor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		colligāre		colligārī		colligāns		—
future		colligātūrum esse		colligātum īrī		colligātūrus		colligandus
perfect		colligāvisse		colligātum esse		—		colligātus
future perfect		—		colligātum fore		—		—
perfect potential		colligātūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		colligandī	colligandō		colligandum	colligandō	colligātum		colligātū

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Italian: collegare
Sicilian: cullijari
→ Catalan: col·ligar
→ English: colligate
→ French: colliger
→ Portuguese: coligar
→ Spanish: coligar

References

“colligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“colligo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to gain strength: vires colligere
- to become thirsty: sitim colligere
- to recruit oneself after a severe illness: e gravi morbo recreari or se colligere
- to beg alms: stipem colligere
- to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
- to win golden opinions from every one: omnium undique laudem colligere
- to become famous, distinguish oneself: gloriam colligere, in summam gloriam venire
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere
- to collect, accumulate instances: multa exempla in unum (locum) colligere
- to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
- to recover from one's fright: ex metu se recreare, se colligere
- to take courage: animum capere, colligere
- to incur a person's hatred: invidiam colligere (aliqua re)
- to pack the baggage (for marching): vasa colligere (Liv. 21. 47)
- to collect the wreckage: naufragium colligere (Sest. 6. 15)