# colligo
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* conligō

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkol.li.ɡoː/, [ˈkɔlːʲɪɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkol.li.ɡo/, [ˈkɔlːiɡo]

### Etymology 1

From con- +‎ legō (“bring together, gather, collect”).

#### Verb

colligō (present infinitive colligere, perfect active collēgī, supine collēctum); third conjugation
* to gather, draw, bring or collect (together), assemble, pick up; contract, draw up, compress, concentrate; harvest
    Synonyms: cōgō, stīpō, glomerō, compellō, congerō, cōnserō, contrahō, cōnstruō, coniungō, cōnferō
** 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 5.3.59–63:DĒMEA. Ego istuc vīderō, atque ibi favīllae plēna, fūmī ac pollinis coquendō sit faxō et molendō. Praeter haec merīdiē ipsō faciam ut stipulam colligat. Tam excoctam reddam atque ātram quam carbō est.DEMEA. I'll see to that, and full of soot, smoke and flour from the cooking and grinding I'll make her. And, besides that, I'll make her collect the straw at noon. I'll render her as burnt and black as coal.
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 3.18:Quā rē concessā laetī ut explōrātā victōriā sarmentīs virgultisquī collēctīs, quibus fossās Rōmānōrum compleant, ad castra pergunt.With that concession, as if with victory assured, they go on their way to the camps with twigs and brushwood gathered, to fill the Roman trenches with.
* to make thick, thicken; bind or mass together
    Synonyms: cumulō, struō, accumulō
* to get, gain, acquire, produce, collect
    Synonyms: acquīrō, adipīscor, cōnsequor, parō, pariō, lucror, impetrō, mereō, sūmō, emō, comparō, potior, apīscor, obtineō, conciliō, nancīscor, alliciō, possideō
    Antonym: āmittō
* to think upon, weigh, consider; deduce, conclude, infer, gather, recollect
* (in a reflexive sense) to collect or compose oneself, recover one's courage or resolution
* (of a number, chiefly a distance) to amount or come to, extend; be reckoned (in a passive sense)

##### Derived terms

* collēcta
* collēctāculum
* collēctāneus
* collēctārius
* collēctē
* collēcticius
* collēctim
* collēctiō
* collēctīvus
* collēctor
* collēctus
* recolligō

##### Related terms

* allegō
* dīligō
* ēligō
* intellegō
* legō
* neglegō
* perlegō
* praelegō
* relegō
* sēligō
* sublegō

##### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: culeg, culeadziri
** Romanian: culege, culegere
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: cogliere
** Neapolitan: cògghie (Apulia)
** Sicilian: cògghiri
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: coglire, collire, cullire, gollire
* North Italian:
** Friulian: cuei
** Ligurian: cugì
** Piedmontese: cheuje, coj, cujì
** Romansch: cleger, culeir, cler
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: collir
** Franco-Provençal: cuelyir, cuèdre, colyir
** Old French: coillir, cueudre
*** French: cueillir
*** Norman: tchilyi (Jersey)
*** Picard: tcheuiller
*** → English: cull, coil
** Occitan: culhir, culir, cuèlher, còlher
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: cullir, culre (Ribagorçan)
** Asturian: coyer
** Old Galician-Portuguese: colher
*** Galician: coller
*** Portuguese: colher
** Spanish: coger
* Vulgar Latin: *accolligere (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Polish: koligować
** → Portuguese: coligir
** → Spanish: colegir

### Etymology 2

From con- +‎ ligō (“tie, bind, fasten”).

#### Verb

colligō (present infinitive colligāre, perfect active colligāvī, supine colligātum); first conjugation
* to bind, tie or fasten together or up, connect; bandage
    Synonyms: illigō, ligō, dēligō, cōnserō, cōnfīgō, adalligō, alligō, nectō, cōnectō, dēfīgō, fīgō, vinculō, dēstinō
    Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
* (figuratively) to unite, combine, connect
    Synonyms: applicō, implicō, contribuō, iungō, iniungō, coniungō, consociō, contrahō, conciliō
* (figuratively, in the sense of preventing free motion) to restrain, check, stop, hinder
    Synonyms: impediō, obstō, moror, arceō, supprimō, cūnctor, contineō, retineō, intersaepiō, refrēnō, inclūdō

##### Derived terms

* colligātē
* colligātiō

##### Related terms

* alligō
* circumligō
* dēligō
* ligō
* obligō
* praeligō
* religō
* subligō

##### Descendants

* Italian: collegare
* Sicilian: cullijari
* → Catalan: col·ligar
* → English: colligate
* → French: colliger
* → Portuguese: coligar
* → Spanish: coligar

### References

* “colligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* colligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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)