lectulus

From lectus (“bed”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛk.tʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛk.tu.lus]

lectulus m (genitive lectulī); second declension

1. A small couch or bed
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.9:

     Repertī sunt duo equitēs Rōmānī quī tē ista cūrā līberārent, et sēsē illa ipsā nocte, paulō ante lūcem, mē in meō lectulō interfectūrōs esse pollicērentur.

     Two Roman knights were found who would release you from that worry, and who would promise that they themselves, that very night, a little before dawn, would kill me in my own bed.

2. An eating couch

Second-declension noun.

• lectīca
• lectīcula
• lectīcārius
• lectus

• “lectulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lectulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lectulus", 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)
• “lectulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.