# lectus
## Latin
### Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of legō (“pick out, select”), with long ē from Lachmann's law.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleːk.tus/, [ˈɫ̪eːkt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.)
* choice; excellent
* read; having been read (silently)
* recited; having been recited; having been read out loud

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Derived terms

* lēctē

##### Related terms

* legō

##### Descendants

* French: lit
* Friulian: let
* Istriot: lito
* Italian: letto
* Sicilian: lettu

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Italic *lektos (“lain upon”), past participle of *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Related to Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlek.tus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛkt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlek.tus/, [ˈlɛkt̪us]

#### Noun

lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension
* (countable) bed (a piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep)
    Synonyms: cama, cubīle, strātum, torus
    Hyponym: grabatus
    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 immediately I gave myself simultaneously to both bed and sleep.
* couch; sofa
    Synonyms: cubīle, pulvinar, strātum, torus

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* lectīca
* lectīcārius
* lectīcula
* lectuārius

##### Descendants

* Asturian: llechu, lletu
* Catalan: llit
* Dalmatian: ljat
* Friulian: jet
* Italian: letto
* Occitan: lèit
* Old French: lit
** Bourguignon: leit
** French: lit
** Norman: liet
* Old Galician-Portuguese: leito
** Galician: leito
** Portuguese: leito
* Old Spanish: lecho, llecho
** Ladino: lecho, ליג׳ו
** Spanish: lecho
* Romansch: letg
* Sardinian: letu
* Sicilian: lettu
* Venetan: łeto

### 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
* “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
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 333
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lectus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 332