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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ko.latˈt͡sjo.ne/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''colazione''' ''f'' (plural colazioni)^(Wiktionary)

+ Older and popular forms are ''colezione'', ''collezione'' and ''collazione''.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)^(Treccani 2011) Regional forms include Piedmontese ''colasion'', Venetian ''colation'' (1573) and Neapolitan ''collazione'' (before 1632, Basile).^(LEI|15, 765)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|collātiō|t=a bringing together]], the noun of [[m|la|collātus]], the past participle of [[m|la|cōnferō|t=to bring together]], a compound of [[m|la|cum|t=with]] and [[m|la|ferō|t=to carry]].^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020) The Latin word meant a collection, a discussion and a conferral, and in the specific sense “collection of patristic writings” it is recorded in Walahfrid Strabo (840–842).^(LEI|15, 765)

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+ The sense “meal” grew up in the monasteries.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003) According to Alberto Zamboni, whom DELI and the LEI follow, the word was used for the common refection during which sacred texts were read aloud, above all the “Collationes” on the lives of the Desert Fathers.^(DELI 1999)^(LEI|15, 765) Nocentini traces it directly to the “Collationes patrum” of John Cassian (c. 360–c. 435): monks took some food at the evening meetings of compline, where a passage of that work was read.^(Nocentini 2010) Tommaseo already explained it as the monks' spiritual conference after eating, and then the eating itself.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ Whether Italian took the word straight from Latin or through French is disputed.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) DELI, Nocentini and GRADIT give the Latin word as the source,^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003) while Devoto, Devoto–Oli, Zingarelli and Gabrielli derive it from [[fro|colation]], and Prati and Meyer-Lübke from Old French or [[pro|colacion]], where it meant the light supper allowed to Catholics on fast days.^(Devoto 1968)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)^(Prati 1951)^(REW 1935) Sabatini–Coletti calls it the popular form beside the learned [[collazione]], which keeps the senses “comparison of texts” and “conferral”.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(LEI|15, 765)^(Wiktionary) The same word is [[fr|collation|t=snack]] and [[es|colación|t=snack]].^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is ''colezione'' in the chronicle of Matteo Villani (before 1363), where the king sends his son ahead to say that he wishes to come and take a ''colezione'' with the captive king of France.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI) The sense was a light meal outside the main ones; the LEI records it as an evening refection on fast days in Vespasiano da Bisticci (before 1498) and as a snack or midday meal in Florentine (1353–1375) and Sicilian (1370) documents.^(LEI|15, 765)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The form ''collazione'' appears in Sercambi's tales (c. 1400) and ''colazione'' in Vespasiano da Bisticci (before 1498).^(DELI 1999) The evening sense, a light supper on days of fasting, lasted into the 18th century and is now archaic.^(LEI|15, 765)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) Tommaseo defined the word as the morning meal, or even only a drink taken then, and Redi recommends adding water to the milk of the ''colazione'' and of the afternoon snack.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ In modern Italian ''colazione'' is above all breakfast, and also the midday meal, especially a light one; to tell the two apart, the morning meal is called ''prima colazione'' and lunch ''seconda colazione''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011) The lunch sense belongs to more formal usage.^(Treccani 2011) Set phrases include ''fare colazione'' (to have breakfast), ''colazione all'inglese'' (an English breakfast, with toast, butter, jam and eggs), ''colazione continentale'', ''colazione di lavoro'' (a working lunch) and ''colazione al sacco'' (a packed lunch eaten outdoors).^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) Alemannic German borrowed the word as ''kalaze''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 840–842 – Walahfrid Strabo uses Latin ''collationes'' for the collections of the lives of the Fathers.^(LEI|15, 765)

+ * 1353–1375 – Florentine ''chollezione'' “snack” is recorded.^(LEI|15, 765)

+ * Before 1363 – Matteo Villani has ''colezione''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1370 – Sicilian ''collacione'' is recorded.^(LEI|15, 765)

+ * c. 1400 – Sercambi has ''collazione''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1498 – Vespasiano da Bisticci has ''colazione'', for a light evening meal on fast days.^(DELI 1999)^(LEI|15, 765)

+ * 1573 – Venetian ''colation'' is recorded.^(LEI|15, 765)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|breakfast]], the first meal of the day, also called ''prima colazione''; also the food eaten then and the time of day when it is eaten: ''Stamattina ho fatto colazione con un tè e due fette biscottate.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # The midday meal, [[m|en|lunch]], especially a light one, also called ''seconda colazione''; the food eaten then: ''Domenica ci hanno invitati a colazione.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A light evening meal taken after a day of [[m|en|fasting]].^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(LEI|15, 765)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[colazioncina]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pranzo]]

+ * [[collazione]]

+ * [[la|collātiō]]

+ * [[fr|collation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}