English
colligation
Colligation comes from Latin colligātiō ‘connection’, and goes back to colligō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligātiō‘connection’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646colligation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligātiō‘connection’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646colligation
Earliest quotation: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “These therefore the midwife cutteth off, contriving them into…”
Equivalent to colligate + -ion
Latin ligō ‘tie, bind, fasten’
Latin colligō ‘to bind, fasten’
Latin colligātus ‘fastened together, having been fastened…’
Middle English colligat(e) ‘bound together’
English colligate
Linked words
through Latin colligō
collection, collective, coil, collector, cull, recollect, 1 more
Today it means
noun A binding together.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin colligō / colligation