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==Etymology==

The word is first seen as [[Latin]] ''collēcta'', the term used in Rome in the 5th century<ref name=Barbee>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Yob__99JEjoC&pg=PR9 C. Frederick Barbee, Paul F.M. Zahl, ''The Collects of Thomas Cranmer''] (Eerdmans 1999 {{ISBN|9780802838452}}), pp. ix-xi</ref> and the 10th,<ref name=McNamara>[http://www.zenit.org/article-35428?l=english Edward McNamara ZENIT liturgy questions, 28 August 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830205711/http://www.zenit.org/article-35428?l=english |date=30 August 2012 }}</ref> although in the [[Tridentine Mass|Tridentine version]] of the [[Roman Missal]] the more generic term ''oratio'' (prayer) was used instead.<ref name=McNamara/>

The Latin word ''collēcta'' meant the gathering of people together (from ''colligō'', "to gather") and may have been applied to this prayer as said before the procession to the church in which [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] was celebrated. It may also have been used to mean a prayer that collected into one the prayers of the individual members of the congregation.<ref name=Barbee/><ref name=McNamara/>