collect [LME] This comes from the Latin verb colligere, from col- ‘together’ and legere ‘choose or collect’. The collect meaning ‘prayer’ [ME] is from Latin collecta ‘a gathering together’—an obsolete use of collect was as a term for ‘a gathering’ for an act of worship. Recollect [E16th] is literally ‘to collect again’. Coil [E16th] is less obviously from the Latin. Something coiled up is gathered in a specific way.