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Collect

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to bring things together into a group, or to gather items as a hobby
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Stage 1 of 2
colligere
Latin · ancient
"to gather together"
to gather together, from com- (together) and legere (to gather)
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Stage 2 of 2
collect
English · 1400s
"to bring things together into a group"
settled as the English word for bringing things together into a group
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