English → Latin
“collect” in Latin
legōto collect, gather, bring together, catch; to choose, select; to appointcolligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to mcōnferōto bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect; to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, opposcomportōto carry, transport or convey; to amass or collectconquīrōto seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of; to collect, bring together; to investigate, searccoacervōto heap or pile up; to amass, collect or gather together; to add, sum or totalcōgōto collect, assemble, gather together; to restrict or confine in space; to force, compel, urge, encourage, finaglecongregōto gather into a flock; to swarm; to assemble, collect, associateconveniōto convene, assemble, gather, meet or come together; to accost, to call on; to sue, to let be summoned to courtcoeōto assemble, meet, come together; to encounter, come up against; to copulate, have sex
The English word collect itself goes back to Latin colligō, through collectare.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
collect
to gather, legere: colligere (together): conferre: comportare (to bring or carry together): conquirere (to seek and collect from various places, with accessary notion of zeal): congerere in unum locum (to one place): coacervare (in a heap): to collect treasures, money. etc., pecuniam or opes undique conquirere (but not pecuniam cogere, which, in Cic., Verr., 2, 57, 141, conveys the meaning of extorting money): conficere (also of money, etc., stronger term): to collect an army or troops, copias, or exercitum parare, or comparare: to collect the troops at one place, copias in unum locum cogere or contrabere: to collect one’s thoughts, cogitationes suas ad unam rem dirigere (after Cic., Acad., 2, 20, 66): animum cogitationemque colligere: to collect one’s self, se or animum colligere: animum recipere: ad se redire: not to be able to collect one’s self, sui, or mentis, or animi non compotem esse; minus compotem esse sui; mente vix constare: non apud se esse (to be beside one’s self): se cohibere (restrain one’s self): iram reprimere (repress one’s anger).
To collect money (officially), accipere: recipere: exigere. Vid: above the meaning of pecuniam cogere (i. e., to extort): pecunias imperatas exigere (the war tax): of taxes. etc. (in general), vectigalia. etc., exigere. INTR., to collect, coacervari: augeri: crescere (PROP., to be collected in one heap, to increase, grow: the latter, e.g., of water)
To come together (of several persons) cogi: se congregare: congregari: convenire: coire (in a mass), confluere: frequentes convenire (in great haste), convolare.
To infer or conclude; vid those words.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for collect?
- The usual Latin words for “collect” are legō, colligō, cōnferō; also comportō, conquīrō, coacervō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.