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English
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Etymology
From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.
Pronunciation
Noun
lector (plural lectors)
- (religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
- (education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
- (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, →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.
- (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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Translations
lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts
public lecturer or reader
Verb
lector (third-person singular simple present lectors, present participle lectoring, simple past and past participle lectored)
- 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
Borrowed from Latin lēctōrem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectors, feminine plural lectores)
- reading
Noun
lector m (plural lectora)
- reader
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Latin
Etymology
From legō + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
lēctor m (genitive lēctōris, feminine lēctrīx); third declension
- reader
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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- Italo-Romance:
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- Ibero-Romance:
- Early borrowings:
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References
- “lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lector 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)
- lector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lĕctor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 235
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French lecteur.
Noun
lector m (plural lectori)
- lecturer
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lēctōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leɡˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: lec‧tor
Adjective
lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectores, feminine plural lectoras)
- reading
- reading aloud to other people
Noun
lector m (plural lectores, feminine lectora, feminine plural lectoras)
- reader (a person who reads)
- reader (a person who reads a publication)
Noun
lector m (plural lectores)
- (computing) reader
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