lectio

Latin

Etymology

legō (“I choose, gather, read”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈleːk.ti.oː/, [ˈɫ̪eːkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.t͡si.o/, [ˈlɛkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

lēctiō f (genitive lēctiōnis); third declension

1. A picking, selecting
2. A reading, perusal

   Lectio ulla sine delectatione.

   A reading without any enjoyment.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lēctiō	lēctiōnēs
Genitive	lēctiōnis	lēctiōnum
Dative	lēctiōnī	lēctiōnibus
Accusative	lēctiōnem	lēctiōnēs
Ablative	lēctiōne	lēctiōnibus
Vocative	lēctiō	lēctiōnēs

Derived terms

• lēctiuncula
• lēctiō senatūs
• māter lēctiōnis

Descendants

• Catalan: lliçó
• French: leçon
• Friulian: lezion, lizion
• Galician: lección
• Italian: lezione
• Norman: lichon (Jersey)
• Occitan: leiçon
• Old French: leçon, lection
  • → Middle English: lessoun
    • English: lesson
• Portuguese: lição
• Romanian: lecție
• Romansch: lecziun
• Spanish: lección

• → Bulgarian: лѐкция (lèkcija)
• → Crimean Tatar: lektsiya
• → Dutch: les
• → English: lection
• → Esperanto: leciono
• → German: Lektion
• → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍄𐌾𐍉 (laiktjō)
• → Macedonian: лекција (lekcija)
• → Russian: ле́кция (lékcija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: lèkcija

  Cyrillic script: лѐкција

• → Swedish: lektion

References

• “lectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lectio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.