collectanea
plural noun
col·lec·ta·nea ˌkä-ˌlek-ˈtā-nē-ə 
: collected writings
also : literary items forming a collection
Synonyms
- album
- anthology
- compendium
- compilation
- florilegium
- miscellany
- reader
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Medieval Latin collēctānea, noun derivative from neuter plural of Latin collēctāneus "assembled from various sources, collected," from collēctus, past participle of colligere "to gather together, assemble, accumulate" + -āneus, adjective suffix (from -ānus -an entry 2 + -eus -eous) — more at collect entry 2
First Known Use
1791, in the meaning defined above
collectanea
noun
as in compilation
a collection of writings in the library I discovered a three-volume collectanea containing all of the author's known writings Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- compilation
- anthology
- compendium
- album
- reader
- florilegium
- ana
- garland
- almanac
- symposium
- miscellanea
- archives
- miscellany
- sourcebook
- digest
- casebook
- chapbook
- library
- corpus
- analects