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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔlˈleːk.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kolˈlɛk.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''collēctiō''' ''f'' (genitive collēctiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[colligō]] “to gather together”, through its participle ⟨collēctus⟩, with the suffix [[-tiō]], and is also spelled ⟨conlēctiō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cicero, of gathering, as his ''conlēctiō membrōrum'' of the scattered limbs of Absyrtus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a bringing together, collecting, accumulation, as Cicero's gathering of Absyrtus' limbs and Petronius' ''collēctiō spīritūs'' “drawing of breath”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Seneca's medicine it meant a gathering, an abscess.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it meant a recapitulation, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', and in Seneca an inference, syllogism.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant collection, summary.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it of a meeting, a congregation, and the collect, the first prayer of the Mass.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|collection]] came in the late 14th century through Old French.^(Etymonline) Old French ''cueillaison'' “gathering” is an inherited descendant.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of recapitulation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of gathering.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of an abscess and of inference.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''collection'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A gathering, [[m|en|collection]]; accumulation.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(medicine)'' An [[m|en|abscess]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' Recapitulation.^(OLD 2012)
+ # An inference, syllogism.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A congregation; the collect of the Mass.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[collēcta]]
+ * [[collēctāculum]]
+ * [[collēctāneus]]
+ * [[collēctārius]]
+ * [[collēctē]]
+ * [[collēcticius]]
+ * [[collēctim]]
+ * [[collēctīvus]]
+ * [[collēctor]]
+ * [[collēctus]]
+ * [[colligō]]
+ * [[en|collection]]
+ * [[en|collect]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}