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Collect comes from Middle English collecten, from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectō, from Latin collecta, from colligō ‘to gather together’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*leǵ-¹‘to gather’reconstructed
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElegō¹‘to gather’
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligō¹‘to gather together’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollectus¹
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollecta¹‘a collection of money’
6. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500collectō¹‘to collect money’
7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400collecter¹
8. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500collecten¹
9. Englishearliest quotation 1690collect¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English collect
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: “[…] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.”.