collatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• conlātio

Etymology

From cōnferō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kolˈlaː.ti.oː/, [kɔlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlat.t͡si.o/, [kolˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

collātiō f (genitive collātiōnis); third declension

1. collecting (bringing together)
2. union, combination
3. comparison, collation (of facts)
4. collection (of taxes)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	collātiō	collātiōnēs
Genitive	collātiōnis	collātiōnum
Dative	collātiōnī	collātiōnibus
Accusative	collātiōnem	collātiōnēs
Ablative	collātiōne	collātiōnibus
Vocative	collātiō	collātiōnēs

Related terms

• collātor
• collātrix
• collō

Descendants

• → Catalan: col·lació (learned)
• → Irish: callóid
• → Italian: colazione
  • → Alemannic German: kalaze
• → Old French: collation
  • Middle French: collation
    • French: collation
  • → English: collation
  • → Middle Irish: coláision
• → Polish: kolacja
• → Portuguese: colação
• → Spanish: colación

References

• “collatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collatio 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)
• collatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.