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colligo
colligo
Latin
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Verb
colligō (present infinitive colligere, perfect active collēgī, supine collēctum); third conjugation
- I gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest.
- I make thick, thicken; bind or mass together.
- I get, gain, acquire, produce, collect.
- I think upon, weigh, consider; deduce, conclude, infer, gather.
- (in a reflexive sense) I collect or compose myself, recover my courage or resolution.
- (of a number, chiefly a distance) I amount or come to, extend; am reckoned (in a passive sense).
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- Note: Perfect terms are sometimes of the form collex.. rather than colleg...
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Etymology 2
con- + ligō (“tie, bind, fasten”)
Verb
colligō (present infinitive colligāre, perfect active colligāvī, supine colligātum); first conjugation
- I bind, tie or fasten together or up, connect; bandage.
- (figuratively) I unite, combine, connect.
- (figuratively, in the sense of preventing free motion) I restrain, check, stop, hinder.
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References
- colligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “colligo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to gain strength: vires colligere
- to become thirsty: sitim colligere
- to recruit oneself after a severe illness: e gravi morbo recreari or se colligere
- to beg alms: stipem colligere
- to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
- to win golden opinions from every one: omnium undique laudem colligere
- to become famous, distinguish oneself: gloriam colligere, in summam gloriam venire
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere
- to collect, accumulate instances: multa exempla in unum (locum) colligere
- to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
- to recover from one's fright: ex metu se recreare, se colligere
- to take courage: animum capere, colligere
- to incur a person's hatred: invidiam colligere (aliqua re)
- to pack the baggage (for marching): vasa colligere (Liv. 21. 47)
- to collect the wreckage: naufragium colligere (Sest. 6. 15)
- to gain strength: vires colligere