lectulus Latin · revision 31921

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *legʰ-tu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫɛk.tʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlɛk.tu.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lectulus''' ''m'' (genitive lectulī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lectus|-ulus|t1=bed, couch]], a diminutive, as Varro already notes.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lectus]] to [[itc-pro|*lekto/u-|t=bed]], perhaps [[ine-pro|*legʰ-tu-|t=the lying]], from the root of [[m|ine-pro|*legʰ-e/o-|t=to lie]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|λέχος|tr=lékhos|t=bed]], [[sga|laigid|t=lies down]] and [[got|𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽|tr=ligan|t=to lie]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from Plautus,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of a couch for reclining at table.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a couch or bed;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of men who promised to kill him in his own bed and remarks that philosophers mostly die in their beds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is the dining couch, as in Terence's order to have couches spread, and the couch used for reading and study, as Crassus' couch in Cicero and in Horace.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “small bed, couch”.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it can mean a bier, a tomb and even a valley.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a dining couch.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of couches spread for a meal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a bed and a couch for study.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small [[m|en|couch]], [[m|en|bed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A couch for reclining at table.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A couch for reading and study.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|bier]]; a tomb.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lectīca]]

+ * [[lectīcula]]

+ * [[lectīcārius]]

+ * [[lectus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}