cull
English
/kʌl/
verb
Definitions
- To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- To gather, collect.
- To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
- (nonstandard) To kill (animals etc).
- To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cullen derived from Old French cuillir (collect, select, gather) derived from Latin colligō (gather together).
Origin
Latin
colligō
Gloss
gather together
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Culpepper English
- cullable English
- culler English
- cullest English
- pepper English
- collector Latin
- colligatio Latin
- colligere Latin
- colligō Latin
- recolligo Latin
- colliger French
- antecoger Spanish, Castilian
- coger Spanish, Castilian
- encoger Spanish, Castilian
- escoger Spanish, Castilian
- sobrecoger Spanish, Castilian
- *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- Coulpeper Middle English
- cullen Middle English
- coillir Old French
- cuillir Old French
- culeg Aromanian
- colhir Old Occitan