collectio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From collēctus + -tiō, from colligō (“collect together”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kolˈleːk.ti.oː/, [kɔlˈlʲeːkt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kolˈlek.t͡si.o/, [kolˈlɛkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Inherited:
- 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[edit]
- “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.