collector

== English == === Alternative forms === collecter collectour (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”). === Pronunciation === enPR: kə-lĕk′tər (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ) Hyphenation: col‧lec‧tor === Noun === collector (plural collectors) A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps. That old piano is just a big dust collector. A person who is employed to collect payments. She works for the government as a tax collector. 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547 Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “collector”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Latin == === Alternative forms === conlēctor === Etymology === From col- + lēctor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔlˈleːk.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kolˈlɛk.tor] Hyphenation: col‧lēc‧tor === Noun === collēctor m (genitive collēctōris, feminine collēctrīx); third declension fellow student ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Further reading === “col-lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press collēctor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1261 R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “collector”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “collector”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 341, column 1. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “collēctor”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[3], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC