collect

Meaning

Synonyms

gather together

heap together

raise funds

gather in

save little by little

put in order

search for

take along

bear away

demand payment

gather around

join together

meet together

reverse-charge

rig up

be paid

gather something

bring to a conclusion

Hakea

combine into a group

come together to

gather into a group

pick up fragment by fragment

reverse charges

upgather

gethered together

associate with

beat about

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəˈlɛkt/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).

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