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lectus

lectus · P. a

Part. and P. a., from 2. lego

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 151.52/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 2 · 15.42/10k
Helius 2 · 13.95/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Elegiae 30 · 11.85/10k
Stichus 7 · 11.28/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 2 · 7.53/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Ars Amatoria 10 · 6.72/10k
Satyrarum libri 9 · 6.34/10k
Satyricon 19 · 6.24/10k

Densest 12 of 160 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lectus — Lewis & Short

lectus, a, um, P. a., from 2. lego.

Part. and

2. lectus — Lewis & Short

lectus, i, m. (lectum, i, n., lectus, ūs, le/xos, a)/loxos, lo/xos, lo/xmh; Lat. lectica; cf. Germ. Lager],

nom.Dig. 32, 1, 52, § 9; 34, 2, 19, § 8; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 15; al. lecti; Sen. Ep. 95, 72 Haas; Cornif. ap. Prisc. 711 P.) [Gr.

I a couch, bed.

I In gen.: meum quidem te lectum certe occupare non sinam, Plaut. Truc. 5, 71: dapsilis, id. ib. 1, 1, 34: standumst in lecto, id. Men. 1, 1, 26: lecti loris subtenti, Cato, R. R. 10: in lecto esse, Cic. Fam. 9, 23; id. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: lecto teneri, to be confined to one's bed, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 16: surgere lecto, Prop. 2, 18 (3, 15), 31: descendere lecto, Tib. 1, 2, 19 (al. derepere): lectus Proculā minor, too short for, Juv. 3, 203: pedes lecti, in quo cubat Dialis, luto tenui circumlitos esse oportet, Gell. 10, 15, 14 sqq.—Plur.: lectos eburatos, auratos (advexit), Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 53.—

II In partic.

A A bridal bed: lectus genialis, the nuptial-bed, which, after the marriage, was called adversus (because it stood opposite the door): genialis, Cic. Clu. 5 fin.: adversus, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 85. jugalis, Verg. A. 4, 496: aucupor in lecto mendaces caelibe somnos, Ov. H. 13, 107.—

B A couch for reclining on at meals, a dining- or eating-couch, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183: lecto recumbere, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 1: in imo lecto residere, Suet. Aug. 64.—

C A couch or settee on which it was customary to read or write, a reading-couch, Sen. Ep. 72, 2.—

D A funeral bed or couch, a bier: flebis et arsuro positum me, Delia, lecto, Tib. 1, 1, 61: lecto funebri aptatus, Petr. 114: corpus ipsum impositum lecto erat, Quint. 6, 1, 31.

3. lectus — Lewis & Short

lectus, ūs, m.2. lego,

I a reading, Prisc. 1221 P.—

II = 2. lectus, q. v.

4. lectus — Walde–Hofmann

lectus, -3 m. (sek. -zs, Cornif. nach Prisc. II 257, 5, oft spätl, (nicht Plaut., s. IF. 42, 85|; -um n. Ulp. nach trielintum usw.) „Lagerstatt, Schlaf-, Ehe-, Leichenbett; Speisesofa^ (seit Plaut, rom., ebenso Iectuürius „zum Bett gehörig“ seit Porph., -ie f. „Bettdecke, Bettzeug“ Greg. Tur. [vgl. leetäria ds. Lex. Sal. und lectuala, -ium ds. seit Ang) Tectulus, - m. „Bett“ ; auch , Faltstuhl u, dgl.“ seit Pit. [zu … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lectus, p. 809]

In the wild

lectum Horace, Carmina 3.21
lecto Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.9.4
lectissimorum Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 97
lectissimis Cicero, Orator 227
lecto Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.659
lectum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.72.2

6 of 551 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lectus (scan p. 372; entry #5883).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lectus (scan pp. 809-811; entry #1516). Root candidates: *leghsqgo-, *legh-, *leyh-.

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