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collectio
collectio
Latin
Noun
collēctiō f (genitive collēctiōnis); third declension
- The act of collecting together; accumulation, collection.
- (rhetoric) A summary, recapitulation, summing up.
- An argumentation, reasoning, conclusion, inference, syllogism.
- (medicine) A swelling, tumor, abscess.
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | collēctiō | collēctiōnēs |
| genitive | collēctiōnis | collēctiōnum |
| dative | collēctiōnī | collēctiōnibus |
| accusative | collēctiōnem | collēctiōnēs |
| ablative | collēctiōne | collēctiōnibus |
| vocative | collēctiō | collēctiōnēs |
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References
- collectio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- COLLECTIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “collectio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.