lectio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈleːk.ti.oː/, [ˈɫ̪eːkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.t͡si.o/, [ˈlɛkt̪͡s̪io]

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.

Case	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
    • French: leçon
    • Norman: lichon (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: lessoun
      • English: lesson
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: lleición, llición
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: liçon
    • Galician: leizón
    • Portuguese: lição
• Early borrowings:
  • → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍄𐌾𐍉 (laiktjō)
  • → Middle Dutch: lesse
    • Dutch: les
      • Afrikaans: les
      • → Caribbean Javanese: lès
      • → Indonesian: les
      • → Papiamentu: lès, les
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *lliθ
    • Middle Welsh: llith
      • Welsh: llith

Later borrowings

• → Bulgarian: ле́кция (lékcija)
• → English: lection, lectio difficilior
• → Esperanto: leciono
• → Friulian: lezion, lizion
• → German: Lektion
• → Italian: lezione
• → Macedonian: лекција (lekcija)
• → Middle Low German: lektie, lexe
  • → Danish: lektie
  • → Swedish: läxa
• → Old French: lection
• → Polish: lekcja
• → Romanian: lecție
• → Romansch: 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’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.