English → Latin
“collector” in Latin
colligōto gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest; to mconquīrōto seek for, hunt up, search out eagerly or carefully, go in quest of; to collect, bring together; to investigate, searcexāctorexpeller; exactor, tax collector; enforcercoāctorcollector of money (tax, revenues, auctions, etc.); one who compelsportitorbearer, carrier, conveyer; ferryman, boatman, sailor, mariner; carter, wagonertaxōto feel, to touch sharply, to handle; to charge, to twit, to reproach, to censure; to rate, to appraise, to value, to es
The English word collector itself goes back to Latin legō, through collēctor.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
collector
one that gathers, qui aliquid legit, colligit, conquirit [SYN. in COLLECT, v.] .
A tax-gatherer, exactor: exactor vectigalium: coactor (general term): portitor (of harbor duties): magister scripturae et portus (chief collector of pasture-land taxes and harbor-duties): to be the collector of harbor-duties, in portu operam dare: qui vectigalia exercent et exigunt (administrators and collectors of public taxes in general): to be a collector of taxes, vectigalia exigere; the collector of taxes, etc., in Gaul, Galliae rationes procurans (Plin., 7, 16, 17); collector of tributes, *tributorum administrator: reipublicae rationes procurans: *collegii, quod vectigalibus publicis exigendis institatum est (a director of that department in general): tribunus aerarii (at Rome, Suet., Caes., 41).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for collector?
- The usual Latin words for “collector” are colligō, conquīrō, exāctor; also coāctor, portitor, taxō. 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.