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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la legō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔl.lɪ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔl.li.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''colligō''' (present infinitive colligere, perfect active collēgī, supine collēctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[con-|t=together]] and [[legō]] “to gather, collect”, with assimilation of ⟨n⟩ to ⟨l⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Legō'' goes back to [[ine-pro|*leǵ-|t=to gather]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus, of gathering things together to take them away.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to gather together, collect, pick up, as Plautus' parings, and in military language ''vāsa colligere'' “to pack one's kit, strike camp”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also meant to harvest fruit, as in Terence, to collect liquid, of clouds and winds to gather, and of emotions to build up, as Lucretius' anger.^(OLD 2012) With people it meant to assemble or rally forces, and over time to amass or acquire, as reputation.^(OLD 2012)
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+ It meant to collect writings, then to bring facts together in the mind, sum up, and to deduce or infer, as Cicero and Ovid use it.^(OLD 2012) In numbers it meant to add up or amount to, as in Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012) Of the body it meant to draw oneself together, of clothes to gird up, and reflexively to pull oneself together, recover, as in Afranius and Livy.^(OLD 2012)
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+ It survives in French ''cueillir'', Italian ''cogliere'', Spanish ''coger'' and Romanian ''culege''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|collect]] comes from its participle ''collēctus'' in the early 15th century, [[en|cull]] through Old French ''cuiler'' in the mid-14th, and [[en|coil]] through French ''coillir'' in the 1610s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of gathering things up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of harvesting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of assembling forces and of inference.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English ''cull'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ * early 15th century – English ''collect'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|gather]] together, [[m|en|collect]], pick up.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To harvest (fruit, crops).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To accumulate (liquid), (of clouds, winds) to gather.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To assemble (forces); to rally.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To amass, acquire (a reputation, goodwill).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To bring together in a book; to collect (facts) mentally.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To sum up.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|infer]], deduce.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To add up, amount to.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To draw (the body) together; to gird up (clothing).^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(reflexive)'' To recover oneself, come to one's senses.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[collēgium]]
+ * [[colligātiō]]
+ * [[recolligō]]
+ * [[collectaculum]]
+ * [[collectāneus]]
+ * [[collectarius]]
+ * [[collectīcius]]
+ * [[collectim]]
+ * [[collēctiō]]
+ * [[collēctīvus]]
+ * [[collēctor]]
+ * [[collectum]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[allegō]]
+ * [[dīligō]]
+ * [[ēligō]]
+ * [[intellegō]]
+ * [[legō]]
+ * [[neglegō]]
+ * [[perlegō]]
+ * [[praelegō]]
+ * [[relegō]]
+ * [[sēligō]]
+ * [[en|collect]]
+ * [[en|cull]]
+ * [[en|coil]]
+ 
+ ==Usage notes==
+ A different verb ''colligō, colligāre'', from [[con-]] and [[ligō]] “to bind”, meant to tie together, bind, unite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}