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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *leǵ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫeːk.tɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlɛk.ti.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lēctitō''' (present infinitive lēctitāre, perfect active lēctitāvī, supine lēctitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|legō#2|-itō|t1=to gather, read]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|legō#2]] to [[itc-pro|*leg-e-]] and [[ine-pro|*leǵ-e/o-|t=to collect]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|λέγω|tr=légō|t=to collect, count; speak]] and [[sq|mbledh|t=to collect]].^(de Vaan 2008) Gellius and Charisius cite it among frequentative verbs.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Cicero,^(OLD 2012) in the ''Brutus'': someone is said to have read Plato eagerly, ''lectitavisse Platonem studiose''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In classical Latin it is to read repeatedly or eagerly, to peruse:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes to a friend that he sees he has been reading the books of Pyrrhus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The sense to gather repeatedly is post-classical:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Valerius Maximus has shells and pebbles collected on the shore, and Arnobius flowers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of reading Plato and the books of Pyrrhus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius, of gathering flowers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|read]] often or eagerly, to [[m|en|peruse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|gather]] or collect often or eagerly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lēctiō]]

+ * [[lēctor]]

+ * [[legō#2]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}