Collection
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin collectio(n- ), from colligere ‘gather together’ (see collect1).
wiktionary
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem.
etymonline
collection (n.)
late 14c., "action of collecting, practice of gathering together," from Old French collection (14c.), from Latin collectionem (nominative collectio) "a gathering together," noun of action from past-participle stem of colligere "gather together" (see collect).
Especially of money gathered for religious or charitable purposes from 1530s. Meaning "a group of objects viewed as a whole" is from c. 1400; sense of "an assemblage of gathered objects" is from mid-15c. Meaning "act of receiving or compelling payment of money owed" is from 1650s.
