collecté

Collecté is the masculine singular past participle of the French verb collecter, meaning to collect or gather. It is used as part of compound tenses (for example, j'ai collecté des données) and as an adjective describing something that has been collected or gathered (données collectées). The form also functions as a past participle that agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies: collecté (m s), collectée (f s), collectés (m pl), collectées (f pl).

Etymology and related terms: collecté derives from the French verb collecter, which itself comes from the noun collecte and ultimately from Latin roots meaning gathered or brought together. Related words include collecte (the act or result of collecting), collecteur (collector), et collectivité (community, a sense of gathered people or resources).

Usage and grammar: as a past participle with auxiliary avoir, the agreement of collecté depends on the position of a preceding direct object. For instance, j'ai collecté des échantillons does not show agreement, whereas les échantillons que j'ai collectés shows agreement with the preceding object échantillons. When used as an adjective, the form must agree with the noun it modifies (une somme collectée, des informations collectées).

Contexts: collecté is widely used in data gathering, research, archaeology, journalism, and public privacy contexts to describe data, samples, or resources that have been gathered or compiled.

See also: collecte, collecte de données (data collection), collecteur (collector), collection (la collection), collectivité.

Examples: Les données collectées proviennent de plusieurs sources. Les échantillons collectés sur le terrain ont été archivés. Des données collectées récemment montrent une tendance…