Compilate

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. To gather and assemble various items, texts, or data into a single collected work or volume
2. To bring together separate materials or information into one organized compilation or collection
3. To combine multiple components or sources into an integrated whole or unified product

Etymology: In Latin, "compilare" meant to plunder or pillage, to strip things together into a heap. Only later did the sense shift toward gathering material from various sources, and that is the sense that reached English through Old French "compiler" in the early 14th century. A text compiled from many sources was once, in effect, a thing taken from many places. "Compilate" is an English noun built on that verb, using the noun-forming suffix "-ate." It names the product of compiling: a collection assembled from scattered parts rather than written as a single original work. The verb has kept the older sense of "gathering" more easily than the noun has, so the noun can sound more learned or old-fashioned than "compilation," which is the more common term.