Collect
late Middle English: from Old French collecter or medieval Latin collectare, from Latin collect- ‘gathered together’, from the verb colligere, from col- ‘together’ + legere ‘choose or collect’.
wiktionary
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare(“to collect money”), from Latin collecta(“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere(“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com-(“together”) + legere(“to gather”).
From Latin ōrātiō ad collectam(“prayer towards the congregation”).
etymonline
collect (v.)
early 15c., "gather into one place or group" (transitive), from Old French collecter "to collect" (late 14c.), from Latin collectus, past participle of colligere "gather together," from assimilated form of com "together" (see com-) + legere "to gather," from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather."
The intransitive sense "gather together, accumulate" is attested from 1794. Related: Collected; collecting. As an adjective or adverb meaning "paid by the recipient," it is attested from 1893, originally with reference to telegrams.
