What is the Latin word for gather?

The usual Latin words for “gather” are rūga, plicō, conclūdō; also carpō, dēcerpō, percipiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“gather” in Latin

rūgaa crease in the face, wrinkle; a crease, fold, plait, wrinkle, corrugation of any kind; a street plicōto fold, bend or flex; to roll up conclūdōto conclude, finish; to define; to shut up, confine, contain carpōto pluck, pick, harvest; to tear off, tear out, rend, separate a whole into single parts, to cut to pieces, divide; to s dēcerpōto pluck, pull; tear, snip or break off; to cull; to gather or crop percipiōto seize or take on (entirely); assume; earn; occupy, keep (i.e. maintain control); to perceive, observe, notice; to fee frūxproduce, crop, fruit; supplies; fruit, result, success sublegōto gather or pick up or from below, gather or search for underneath; to take away secretly or by stealth; listen to secr dēmetōto reap, cut or mow; to cut down; to pick (fruit)frūmentumgrain

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

gather s.

(in a garment)(in a garment), *ruga consuta, or ruga only; or plicatura (fold).

gather v.

TRANS.,

Collect, Vid:

To gather in harvests, etc., carpere: decerpere (to pluck): destringere alicui aliquid (to strip off, tear off; e.g., leaves and berries): detrahere alicui aliquid (to take off; e.g., fruits): percipere (to gather or collect for use; e.g., the fruits of the earth, fruges; olives, fructum ex olea, Plin.): sublegere (to gather up; e.g., baccam, quae in terram decidit, Col.): demetere (PROP., of corn, frumentum, segetes; poetically, of flowers, pollice florem, Verg.). To gather the grapes, uvas legere; detrahere uvas ex arboribus: vindemiam colligere (of the general gathering; the vintage): vindemiare (post-Augustan; also, vindemiare uvas, Plin.); olives, legere oleas (Cato), olivas (Hor.), oleam stringere (to tear it off, which an old law forbade), to gather apples (garden fruits), demere or detrahere poma arboribus; legere poma ex or ab arboribus.

To draw an inference, ex aliqua re colligere, concludere: hence it may be gathered, ex quo effici cogique potest (anything may be established by argument).

To pucker (a dress), consuere in rugas (rugae, Plin. 35, 8, 34, etc.).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for gather?: The usual Latin words for “gather” are rūga, plicō, conclūdō; also carpō, dēcerpō, percipiō. 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.