Word Origin Summary

Collēctiō is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• colecție

  Romanian · borrowed from

• collectie

  Dutch · derived from

• collezione

  Italian · borrowed from

• koleksiyon

  Turkish · borrowed from

• kollezzjoni

  Maltese · derived from

• kolekcja

  Polish · derived from

• collection

  French · borrowed from

• koleksi

  Indonesian · derived from

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