lectus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of legō (“pick out, select”), with long ē from Lachmann's law. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫeːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɛk.tus] ==== Participle ==== lēctus (feminine lēcta, neuter lēctum, comparative lēctior, superlative lēctissimus); first/second-declension participle chosen; picked; having been selected choice; excellent read; having been read (silently) recited; having been recited; having been read out loud ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === Derived from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lay”), exact morphology uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *lektos, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰtós. Alternatively from Proto-Italic *lektus (an u-stem), from Proto-Indo-European *légʰtus, with a later switch to an o-stem within Latin. Cognate with Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos) and with Russian лежа́к (ležák) and лежа́нка (ležánka). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫɛk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɛk.tus] ==== 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. couch; sofa Synonyms: cubīle, pulvinar, strātum, torus ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === 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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “lectus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2] “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