lectio
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom legō (“I choose, gather, read”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈleːk.ti.oː/, [ˈɫ̪eːkt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlek.t͡si.o/, [ˈlɛkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
editlēctiō f (genitive lēctiōnis); third declension
- A picking, selecting
- A reading, perusal
- Lectio ulla sine delectatione.
- A reading without any enjoyment.
- A chapter
- Ego lēctiōnem legō[1]
- I read the chapter
Declension
editThird-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
editDescendants
edit- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Early borrowings:
- Later borrowings
- → Bulgarian: ле́кция (lékcija)
- → English: lection, lectio difficilior
- → Esperanto: leciono
- → Friulian: lezion, lizion
- → German: Lektion
- → Italian: lezione
- → Macedonian: лекција (lekcija)
- → Middle Low German: lektie, lexe
- → Old French: lection
- → Polish: lekcja
- → Romanian: lecție
- → Romansch: lecziun
- → Russian: ле́кция (lékcija)
- → Crimean Tatar: lektsiya
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: lección
- → Galician: lección
- → Swedish: lektion
References
edit- “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.