samlade

Samlade is an adjective used in Swedish and Danish to mean "collected" or "assembled." It is the past participle of the verb samla/samla "to collect" and is commonly employed to describe compilations or editions that gather an author's body of work. In practice, samlade modifies a noun and appears in bibliographic titles and library catalogs.

In Swedish, the form samlade is used both as the past tense of the verb "to collect" (for example, "jag samlade") and as the attributive adjective in phrases such as "samlade verk" (the collected works) or "samlade dikter" (collected poems). In Danish, a similar usage exists, often appearing in titles such as "Samlede værker."

Etymology: samlade derives from the verb samla/samla, with the suffix -de forming a past participle; the form is rooted in the Germanic language family, with origins in Old Norse or Proto-Germanic.

Usage notes: The term is largely literary or bibliographic, primarily encountered in titles and catalogs rather than everyday speech, where it describes a set that gathers multiple items, works, or data. When translating, samlade is typically rendered as "collected" or "the collected works."