lectio

Latin

Etymology

From legō (“I choose, gather, read”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

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[1]
    I read the chapter

Declension

Third-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

Descendants
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: lliçó
    • Occitan: leiçon
    • Franco-Provençal: leçon
    • Old French: leçon
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: lleición, llición
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: liçon
      • Galician: leizón
      • Portuguese: lição
  • Early borrowings:
Later borrowings

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’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.
  1. Duolingo‎, 2019 August 27
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