DictionaryRoot: ferre
Latin
ferre
bear, carry, bring
Forms
- fer-
- lat- — Used for ‘carried’ in the Latin verb’s grammar, but supplied by a different older root.
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *bher-, ‘bear; carry.’
Note
English bear is a relative from the same older source, rather than a Latin borrowing.
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verb
collate
kuh-LAYT/kəˈleɪt/
To gather and arrange items or information in a useful order.
Etymology
“Carrying together” became bringing items together for comparison. Checking that pages were correctly arranged provides the bridge to the sense of gathering and ordering information.
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