lectus
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of legō (“pick out, select”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈleːk.tus/, [ˈɫ̪eːkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tus/, [ˈlɛkt̪us]
Participle
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
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
- lēctē
Related terms
- legō
Descendants
- Friulian: let
- Istriot: lito
- Italian: letto
- Sicilian: lettu
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Related to Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tus/, [ˈlɛkt̪us]
Noun
lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension
- bed
- Synonym: strātum
- Puerī sub lectō sunt ― The boys are under the bed.
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.32:
- mēque statim […] lectō simul et somnō trādidī.
- And immmediately I gave myself simultaneously to both bed and sleep.
- mēque statim […] lectō simul et somnō trādidī.
- couch, sofa
Declension
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
- lectīca
- lectīcārius
- lectīcula
- lectuārius
Descendants
Descendants
- Bourguignon: leit
- Catalan: llit
- English: litter
- Dalmatian: ljat
- Friulian: jet
- Italian: letto
- Norman: liet
- Occitan: lèit
- Old French: lit
- French: lit
- Old Portuguese: leito
- Galician: leito
- Portuguese: leito
- Romansch: letg
- Sardinian: letu
- Sicilian: lettu
- Spanish: lecho
- Venetian: łeto
See also
- cubīle n
References
- “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, 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
- “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