Etymograph

English

colligation

Colligation comes from Latin colligātiō ‘connection’, and goes back to colligō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligō1
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligātiō2‘connection’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1646colligation2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin colligatio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English colligation
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “These therefore the midwife cutteth off, contriving them into…”.

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligōWiktionary, Latin colligatio
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcolligātiōWiktionary, English colligation‘connection’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1646colligationWiktionary, English colligation. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “These therefore the midwife cutteth off, contriving them into…”

Equivalent to colligate + -ion

Latin ligō ‘tie, bind, fasten’

Latin colligō ‘to bind, fasten’

Latin colligātus ‘fastened together, having been fastened…’

Middle English colligat(e) ‘bound together’

English colligate

Linked words

through Latin colligō

collection, collective, coil, collector, cull, recollect, 1 more

Today it means

noun A binding together.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “colligation”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin colligatio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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