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“pack, pack up” in Latin

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

pack, pack up v.
To collect in parcels or bundles, colligere; componere; in fasciculos colligare; sarcinulas alligare.
To squeeze together, coartare. Close packing, *hominum in angusto sedentium coartatio (after Liv., 27, 46; of the close sitting in the theatre).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for pack, pack up?
The usual Latin words for “pack, pack up” are colligō, compōnō, coartō. 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.