collectus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of colligō (“[I] gather, collect”).

Participle

collēctus (feminine collēcta, neuter collēctum); first/second-declension participle

1. gathered, having been gathered; collected, having been collected; assembled, having been assembled
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.170–171:

     Hūc septem Aenēās collēctīs nāvibus omnī
     ex numerō subit [...].

     Here is where Aeneas approaches with seven ships gathered in all from the [original] count [of 20 Trojan ships].

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	collēctus	collēcta	collēctum		collēctī	collēctae	collēcta
Genitive	collēctī	collēctae	collēctī		collēctōrum	collēctārum	collēctōrum
Dative	collēctō		collēctō		collēctīs
Accusative	collēctum	collēctam	collēctum		collēctōs	collēctās	collēcta
Ablative	collēctō	collēctā	collēctō		collēctīs
Vocative	collēcte	collēcta	collēctum		collēctī	collēctae	collēcta

Derived terms

• collēcta
• collēctiō

Descendants

• Aromanian: culeptu
• Catalan: collit
• English: collect
• Galician: colleito
• Italian: colletto, colto
• Portuguese: coleto, colheito
• Spanish: cogecho, cosecho

References

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