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Lesson 2: Interpreting words in contextCollective | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “collective”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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Video transcript
- [David] It's time to
come together, wordsmiths. The word we'll go through in
this video is "collective." Collective, it's an adjective. It means, something done
together by everyone in a group, like, "We made a collective decision that sea slugs should be our mascot." We did it together, right? This word comes from Latin roots, the co- part means with, or together, like cohabitate, to live together, or cooperate, to work together. You might also see it as con, or com. The -lect part comes from legere, which is Latin for "to
pick," or "to gather." It's also Latin for "to read,"
but that's another story. So gathered together, that's what it means to
collect something, right? Collect, gather together. And this last part, I-V-E, -ive, that's what makes it an
adjective, a describing word, it means tending to. So, therefore, something that's collective tends to stick together, right? Gathers things together,
does things as a group. So using these three elements, what other similar words
can you come up with? Co-, or con-, lect, or -ive. I'll put on some music. Meet me back here in 10 seconds. (energetic music) Okay. Here's what I came up with. Using CON, I have conduct, to guide, like a train conductor,
or an orchestra conductor. Con, together, duct, to lead. You're leading an orchestra together. You're keeping everyone
on the train together. Using LECT, I got elect, right? To vote for someone, to pick them. Using -ive, I got impressive, an adjective that describes something as worthy or memorable, something that might impress us, right? Let's use collective in a sentence. "Because its members loved arguing, the Debate Club struggled to
make collective decisions." Right? They couldn't even
decide what to order for dinner as a group. Little takeout menu in the center. You can also use collective as a noun, although that's a little bit less common, it's another way to say group. Think of like, a farmer's collective, or a yarn collective, right? It's a group of people
that have come together to accomplish something. Together, we fly, wordsmiths. What we do, we do collectively. And together, I think we can learn anything. David, out.