lectica

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See also: lectică

English

A lectica in use

Etymology

From Latin lectica (“litter”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v.

Noun

lectica (plural lecticas or lecticae)

  1. (historical) A kind of Roman litter, typically with bedding, curtains, and four legs.
  2. (inexact) Synonym of litter, any similar vehicle.

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Latin

Etymology

From lectus +‎ -īca.

Pronunciation

Noun

lectīca f (genitive lectīcae); first declension

  1. (historical) lectica, a kind of litter typically including bedding, curtains, and four legs
  2. litter, any couch or bed carried by porters
  3. stretcher, a litter used for transporting the ill or injured

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lectīca lectīcae
genitive lectīcae lectīcārum
dative lectīcae lectīcīs
accusative lectīcam lectīcās
ablative lectīcā lectīcīs
vocative lectīca lectīcae

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Descendants

  • English: lectica
  • Italian: lettiga
  • Romanian: lectică
  • Spanish: lechiga

References

  • “lectica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lectica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lectica 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)
  • lectica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lectica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “lectica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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