different between collection vs miscellanea

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French collection, from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: col?lec?tion

Noun

collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)

1. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     collections of moisture

   • 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine

     a purulent collection

2. Multiple related objects associated as a group.

3. The activity of collecting.

4. (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
6. (law) Debt collection.
7. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
8. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
9. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
10. The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• c., coll. (abbreviations)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?k.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: collections
• Hyphenation: col?lec?tion

Noun

collection f (plural collections)

1. collection

Derived terms

• collec
• collectionner
• collectionneur
• collectionnite

Related terms

• collecte
• collecter
• cueillette
• cueillir

Further reading

• “collection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s??le?n??/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin miscellanea, neuter plural of miscellaneus, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misce? (“to mix”).

Noun

miscellanea (plural miscellanea)

1. A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.

Synonyms

• miscellany

Related terms

• miscellaneous
• miscellany

Etymology 2

Noun

miscellanea

1. plural of miscellaneum

Anagrams

• mésalliance

Italian

Etymology

Plural of miscellaneo, or borrowed from Latin miscellanea.

Noun

miscellanea f (plural miscellanee)

1. miscellany

Related terms

• miscellaneo

Latin

Adjective

miscell?nea

1. nominative feminine singular of miscell?neus
2. nominative neuter plural of miscell?neus
3. accusative neuter plural of miscell?neus
4. vocative feminine singular of miscell?neus
5. nominative neuter plural of miscell?neus

Adjective

miscell?ne?

1. ablative feminine singular of miscell?neus

References

• miscellanea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers