collecta

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French

Verb

collecta

  1. third-person singular past historic of collecter

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From collēctus.

Pronunciation

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative collēcta collēctae
Genitive collēctae collēctārum
Dative collēctae collēctīs
Accusative collēctam collēctās
Ablative collēctā collēctīs
Vocative collēcta collēctae

Descendants

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare
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