different between trove vs collection

English

Etymology

Originally in the phrase treasure trove, from Anglo-Norman tresor trouvé (“found treasure”), where the past participle trouvé (“found”) was interpreted in English as a noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?o?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

trove (plural troves)

1. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.
2. A collection of things.

Translations

Anagrams

• orvet, overt, voter

Portuguese

Verb

trove

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of trovar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of trovar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of trovar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of trovar

References

• “trove” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “trove” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.

Spanish

Verb

trove

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of trovar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of trovar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of trovar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of trovar.

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).