# lector
## English
### Alternative forms

* lectour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛktə(ɹ)/

### Noun

lector (plural lectors)
* (religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
* (education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
* (historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
** 2004 October 27, D. J. R. Bruckner, “New Inflections and Nuance in a Florida Cigar Factory”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.
* (television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.
** 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

#### Derived terms

* caveat lector

#### Related terms

* lectern
* lection
* lectionary
* lecture

#### Translations
### Verb

lector (third-person singular simple present lectors, present participle lectoring, simple past and past participle lectored)
* To perform service as a lector in a religious context.
* To do a voice-over translation of a film.
** 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.

### Further reading

* lector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Colter, Cotler, ECRLOT, colter

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēctōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ləkˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [lekˈtoɾ]

### Adjective

lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectors, feminine plural lectores)
* reading

### Noun

lector m (plural lectora)
* reader

#### Related terms

* lectura
* llegir
* lliçó

### Further reading

* “lector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Latin
### Etymology

From legō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleːk.tor/, [ˈɫ̪eːkt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlek.tor/, [ˈlɛkt̪or]

### Noun

lēctor m (genitive lēctōris, feminine lēctrīx); third declension
* reader

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* lēctorīle

#### Related terms

* lēctiō
* lēctitō
* lēctiuncula
* lēctrīx
* lēctūra
* lēctus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: lettore
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old Franco-Provençal: leytour
*** Franco-Provençal: le̢ytur
** Old French: litur, litre, letour
*** Middle French: listre (silent s), leiteur
** Old Occitan: leitre, leytoo
* Ibero-Romance:
** → Portuguese: leitor
* Early borrowings:
** → Old Irish: líachtóir
*** Irish: léachtóir
* Modern borrowings:
** → Bulgarian: ле́ктор (léktor)
** → Catalan: lector
** → English: lector
** → French: lecteur
** → Macedonian: лектор (lektor)
** → Polish: lektor
** → Romanian: lector
** → Russian: ле́ктор (léktor)
*** → Crimean Tatar: lektor
** → Spanish: lector
** → Swedish: lektor

### References

* “lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* lector 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)
* lector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lĕctor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 235

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French lecteur.

### Noun

lector m (plural lectori)
* lecturer

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēctōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leɡˈtoɾ/ [leɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: lec‧tor

### Adjective

lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectores, feminine plural lectoras)
* reading
* reading aloud to other people

### Noun

lector m (plural lectores, feminine lectora, feminine plural lectoras)
* reader (a person who reads)
* reader (a person who reads a publication)

### Noun

lector m (plural lectores)
* (computing) reader

#### Derived terms

* lector de discos
* lector de pantalla
* lectoría

#### Related terms

* lección
* lectura
* leer

### Further reading

* “lector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10