lectus

Perfect passive participle of legō (“pick out, select”), with long ē from Lachmann's law.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫeːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛk.tus]

lēctus (feminine lēcta, neuter lēctum, comparative lēctior, superlative lēctissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. chosen; picked; having been selected
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.441:

     Plūrima lēcta rosa est, sunt et sine nōmine flōrēs.

     They picked many a rose, and flowers without a name.
     (Ovid describes the luxuriant field where Persephone and her attendants picked flowers.)

2. choice; excellent
3. read; having been read (silently)
4. recited; having been recited; having been read out loud

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lay”), exact morphology uncertain.

• Perhaps from Proto-Italic *lektos, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰtós.^[2]
• Alternatively from Proto-Italic *lektus (an u-stem), from Proto-Indo-European *légʰtus, with a later switch to an o-stem within Latin.^[2]

Cognate with Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos)^[2] and with Russian лежа́к (ležák) and лежа́нка (ležánka).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛk.tus]

lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension

1. (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.

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.32:

     mēque statim […] lectō simul et somnō trādidī.

     And immediately I gave myself simultaneously to both bed and sleep.

2. couch; sofa

   Synonyms: cubīle, pulvinar, strātum, torus

Second-declension noun.

• “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.
  • to be confined to one's bed: lecto teneri
    
  • to rise from one's bed, get up: e lecto or e cubīli surgere
    
• “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