collectio

== Latin == === Etymology === From collēctus +‎ -tiō, from colligō (“collect together”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔlˈleːk.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kolˈlɛk.t͡si.o] === 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. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “collectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "collectio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “collectio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.