Origin: 1375–1425;late Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latincolleg- (variant stem of colligere; see collect1) + -tor-tor
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. collectour (Fr. collecteur), from L.L. collector, agent noun from colligere (see collect). Fem. form collectress is attested from 1825.