collecta

French

Verb

collecta

1. third-person singular past historic of collecter

Latin

Alternative forms

• conlēcta

Etymology

From collēctus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kolˈleːk.ta/, [kɔlˈlʲeːkt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlek.ta/, [kolˈlɛkt̪ä]

Noun

collēcta f (genitive collēctae); first declension

1. contribution (in money); collection
2. meeting, assemblage
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) collect (prayer before the epistle)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	collēcta	collēctae
genitive	collēctae	collēctārum
dative	collēctae	collēctīs
accusative	collēctam	collēctās
ablative	collēctā	collēctīs
vocative	collēcta	collēctae

Descendants

• Asturian: collecha, → coleuta
• Catalan: collita
• French: cueillette, → collecte
• Friulian: colete
• Galician: colleita, → colecta
• Italian: colletta, colta
• Occitan: culhida, culhita
• Portuguese: colheita, → coleta
• Romansch: culetga
• Sicilian: goddetta, buddetta, colletta
• Spanish: cosecha, → colecta
• Venetan: cołéta, còlta

References

• “collecta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collecta 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)
• collecta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare