sb. pl. [Lat., neuter pl. of collectāneus adj. (see next), as in the Dicta collectanea of Caesar, and as sb. in the Collectanea or collected works of Solinus.] Passages, remarks, etc., collected from various sources; (as collect. sing.) a collection of passages, a miscellany.
1791. Boswell, Johnson (1831), I. 373. I shall now present my readers with some Collectanea.
1809. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 162. So that this collectanea may be formed into a biobibliographical and critical account.
1848. trans. Lessing’s Fables, in F. H. Hedge, German Prose Writers, 96/1. The laborious German compiles the collectanea which the witty Frenchman uses.
