recollect

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To bring something back to mind; to remember.

   I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I decided to go.

2. 2
   verb

   To calm and compose yourself after a shock or distraction.

   She paused for a moment to recollect herself before answering the difficult question.

Simplified etymology

Recollect dates from the early 16th century and literally means to collect again. Collect comes from Latin colligere, formed from col-, meaning together, and legere, meaning choose or collect.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

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