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別の表記

• collecter
• collectour (obsolete)

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

発音

• enPR: kə-lĕk′tər
• (General American) IPA: /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: col‧lec‧tor

名詞

collector (plural collectors)

1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

   She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.

   That old piano is just a big dust collector.

   • 1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:

     The Young Collector's Handbook. By E. C. R. Hadfield and C. Hamilton Ellis. London: Oxford University Press, Amen House, E.C.4. 7½ in. × 5 in. × 1 in. 78 pp. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives. Some outgrow the habit; with others it becomes a mania; and with still others it is a lasting habit intelligently planned as one aspect of a study of a particular subject.

   • 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”

2. A person who is employed to collect payments.

   She works for the government as a tax collector.

   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

   • 2010, “Telephone”, performed by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé:

     I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer

   1. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
3. (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
4. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Volumes […] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.

5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
   • 1655, Anthony Wood, diaries:

     Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts

6. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• “collector”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From col- + lēctor.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɔlˈleːk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kolˈlɛk.tor]
• ハイフネーション: col‧lēc‧tor

名詞

collēctor m (genitive collēctōris, feminine collēctrīx); third declension

1. fellow student
   • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones 1.17.27

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

Further reading

• “col-lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collēctor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1261
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “collector”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “collector”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 341.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “collēctor”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎, 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC