lectus

Perfect passive participle of legō (“pick out, select”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈleːk.tus/, [ˈɫeːk.tʊs]

lēctus m (feminine lēcta, neuter lēctum); first/second declension

1. chosen, picked, having been selected
2. choice, excellent

First/second declension.

• lēctē

• legō

• Catalan: llit
• Friulian: let
• Istriot: lito
• Italian: letto
• Sicilian: lettu

From Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Related to Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tus/, [ˈɫɛk.tʊs]

lectus m (genitive lectī); second declension

1. bed

   Pueri sub lecto sunt.

   The boys are under the bed.

2. couch, sofa

Second declension.

• 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, 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