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lector

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Etymology

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From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

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lector (plural lectors)

  1. (religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
  2. (education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
  3. (historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
    • 2004 October 27, D. J. R. Bruckner, “New Inflections and Nuance in a Florida Cigar Factory”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.
  4. (television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.
    • 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
      The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

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Verb

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lector (third-person singular simple present lectors, present participle lectoring, simple past and past participle lectored)

  1. To perform service as a lector in a religious context.
  2. To do a voice-over translation of a film.
    • 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
      How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lēctōrem.

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Adjective

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lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectors, feminine plural lectores)

  1. reading

Noun

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lector m (plural lectora)

  1. reader
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Latin

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Etymology

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From legō +‎ -tor.

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lēctor m (genitive lēctōris, feminine lēctrīx); third declension

  1. reader

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lēctor lēctōrēs
Genitive lēctōris lēctōrum
Dative lēctōrī lēctōribus
Accusative lēctōrem lēctōrēs
Ablative lēctōre lēctōribus
Vocative lēctor lēctōrēs

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French lecteur.

Noun

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lector m (plural lectori)

  1. lecturer

Declension

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Declension of lector
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) lector lectorul (niște) lectori lectorii
genitive/dative (unui) lector lectorului (unor) lectori lectorilor
vocative lectorule lectorilor

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin lēctōrem.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /leɡˈtoɾ/ [leɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: lec‧tor

Adjective

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lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectores, feminine plural lectoras)

  1. reading
  2. reading aloud to other people

Noun

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lector m (plural lectores, feminine lectora, feminine plural lectoras)

  1. reader (a person who reads)
  2. reader (a person who reads a publication)

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lector m (plural lectores)

  1. (computing) reader

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