collection
/kəˈlɛkʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- The activity of collecting.
- A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- Debt collection.
- The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.
- *leǵ-(ine-pro)→
- collēctiō(la)→
- collection(fro)→
- colleccioun(enm)→
- *leǵ-(ine-pro)→
- collection (English)
- Relations: root, inh, der, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- コレクション(Japanese) (bor)
- konlet(Volapük) (bor)
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