collation
noun
[ kəˈleɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the action of collating something.
• "data management and collation"
• a light informal meal.
• "lunch was a collation of salami, olives, and rye bread"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin collatio(n- ), from conferre (see confer). Originally (in the plural) the term denoted John Cassian's Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium ‘Conferences of, or with, the Egyptian Hermits’ (AD 415–20), from which a reading would be given in Benedictine communities prior to a light meal (see collation (sense 2)).
