lectio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti

Proto-Italic *legō

Latin legō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin lēctiō

From legō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫeːk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛk.t͡si.o]

Noun

lēctiō f (genitive lēctiōnis); third declension

1. A picking, selecting
2. A reading, perusal

   Lectio ulla sine delectatione.

   A reading without any enjoyment.

3. A chapter

   Ego lēctiōnem legō

   I read the chapter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lēctiō	lēctiōnēs
genitive	lēctiōnis	lēctiōnum
dative	lēctiōnī	lēctiōnibus
accusative	lēctiōnem	lēctiōnēs
ablative	lēctiōne	lēctiōnibus
vocative	lēctiō	lēctiōnēs

Derived terms

• lēctiuncula
• lēctiō senatūs
• lēctiōnārium
• māter lēctiōnis

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: lliçó
  • Occitan: leiçon
  • Franco-Provençal: leçon
  • Old French: leçon
    • Franc-Comtois: yeçon
    • French: leçon
      • → Middle English: lessoun
        • English: lesson
    • Norman: lichon (Jersey)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: lleición, llición
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: liçon
    • Galician: leizón
    • Portuguese: lição
• Early borrowings:
  • → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍄𐌾𐍉 (laiktjō)
  • → Old Dutch: *lekza
    • → Middle Dutch: lexe, lesse
      • Dutch: les
        • Afrikaans: les
        • → Caribbean Javanese: lès
        • → Indonesian: les
        • → Papiamentu: lès, les
  • → Old High German: lekza, leccia
    • Middle High German: lecze, letze
  • → Old Irish: líacht(u)
  • → Old Saxon: lekzia
    • Middle Low German: lexe, lektie
      • → Danish: lektie
      • → Swedish: läxa
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *lliθ
    • Middle Welsh: llith
      • Welsh: llith

Later borrowings

• → Bulgarian: ле́кция (lékcija)
• → Corsican: lezzione
• → English: lection, lectio difficilior
• → Esperanto: leciono
• → Friulian: lezion, lizion
• → German: Lektion
• → Italian: lezione
• → Macedonian: лекција (lekcija)
• → Old French: lection
• → Polish: lekcja
• → Romanian: lecție
• → Romansh: lecziun
• → Russian: ле́кция (lékcija)
  • → Crimean Tatar: lektsiya
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: lèkcija

  Cyrillic script: лѐкција

• → Spanish: lección
  • → Galician: lección
• → Swedish: lektion

References

• “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, 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.