lectus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Perfect passive participle of legō (“pick out, select”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
lēctus (feminine lēcta, neuter lēctum, comparative lēctior, superlative lēctissimus); first/second-declension participle
- chosen, picked, having been selected
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.441:
- Plūrima lēcta rosa est, sunt et sine nōmine flōrēs.
- They picked many a rose, and flowers without a name.
(Ovid describes the luxuriant field where Persephone and her attendants picked flowers.)
- They picked many a rose, and flowers without a name.
- Plūrima lēcta rosa est, sunt et sine nōmine flōrēs.
- choice, excellent
- read, having been read (silently)
- recited, having been recited, having been read out loud
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | lēctus | lēcta | lēctum | lēctī | lēctae | lēcta | |
Genitive | lēctī | lēctae | lēctī | lēctōrum | lēctārum | lēctōrum | |
Dative | lēctō | lēctō | lēctīs | ||||
Accusative | lēctum | lēctam | lēctum | lēctōs | lēctās | lēcta | |
Ablative | lēctō | lēctā | lēctō | lēctīs | |||
Vocative | lēcte | lēcta | lēctum | lēctī | lēctae | lēcta |
Derived terms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Related to Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lectus | lectī |
Genitive | lectī | lectōrum |
Dative | lectō | lectīs |
Accusative | lectum | lectōs |
Ablative | lectō | lectīs |
Vocative | lecte | lectī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Descendants
See also[edit]
- cubīle n
References[edit]
- “lectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lectus 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)
- lectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be confined to one's bed: lecto teneri
- to rise from one's bed, get up: e lecto or e cubīli surgere
- to be confined to one's bed: lecto teneri
- “lectus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “lectus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lectus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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