lectica

== English == === Etymology === From Latin lectīca (“litter”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -īca (“forming related nouns”), q.v. === Noun === lectica (plural lecticas or lecticae) (historical) A kind of Roman litter, typically with bedding, curtains, and four legs. (inexact) Synonym of litter, any similar vehicle. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === calcite == Latin == === Etymology === From lectus + -īca. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫɛkˈtiː.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [lekˈtiː.ka] === Noun === lectīca f (genitive lectīcae); first declension (historical) lectica, a kind of litter typically including bedding, curtains, and four legs litter, any couch or bed carried by porters stretcher, a litter used for transporting the ill or injured ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (stretcher): grabatus ==== Hyponyms ==== hexaphoron (lectica carried by 6 men); octophoron (lectica carried by 8 men) ==== Coordinate terms ==== succollarus (person transported); lectīcārius (porter); anteambulo (forerunner); asser (pole); succollare (act of raising a lectica); sella (sedan chair); feretrum (funereal litter) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: lectica Italian: lettiga Romanian: lectică Spanish: lechiga === References === “lectica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lectica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "lectica", 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) “lectica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “lectica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “lectica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin == Romanian == === Noun === lectica definite nominative/accusative singular of lectică