collecta

collecta

1. third-person singular past historic of collecter

• conlēcta

From collēctus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kolˈleːk.ta/, [kɔlˈlʲeːkt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kolˈlek.ta/, [kolˈlɛkt̪ä]

collēcta f (genitive collēctae); first declension

1. contribution (in money); collection
2. meeting, assemblage
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) collect (prayer before the epistle)

First-declension noun.

• “collecta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collecta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• collecta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare