lectus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈleːk.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tus/,

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

1. chosen, picked, having been selected
   • 8 CE, Ovid, 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.

• lēctē

• legō

• Friulian: let
• Istriot: lito
• Italian: letto
• Sicilian: lettu
• French: lit

From Proto-Italic *lektos (“lain upon”), past participle of *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Related to Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos).^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tus/,

lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension

1. bed

   Synonym: strātum

   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 immmediately I gave myself simultaneously to both bed and sleep.

2. couch, sofa

Second-declension noun.

• lectīca
• lectīcārius
• lectīcula
• lectuārius

• cubīle n

• “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’s 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, 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
• “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