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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la legō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɫeːk.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈlɛk.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''lēctiō''' ''f'' (genitive lēctiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[legō]] “to gather, choose, read” with the suffix [[-tiō]], as Varro and Servius already note.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The TLL dates it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', Varro, Cicero, Nepos and Livy.^(TLL) Köbler dates the ''Rhetorica'' 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Columella it meant gathering, of stones, which Lewis and Short call post-Augustan and rare.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Cicero it meant choosing, selection, especially ''lēctiō senātūs'' the revision of the Senate's roll, and a reading, perusal.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Quintilian it meant what is read, a passage, and in the plural readings.^(OLD 2012) Isidore says a ''lēctiō'' is so called because it is not sung, like a psalm, but only read.^(Isidore)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a lesson, reading, the Epistle, a lecture, a class.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for the wording or version of a text, an interpretation, and a treatise.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in French ''leçon'' and Portuguese ''lição'', and Old French ''leçon'' gave [[en|lesson]] in the early 13th century, first a reading from the Bible; [[en|lection]] came in the 1530s.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of reading and of the Senate's roll.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of gathering stones.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 13th century – English ''lesson'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Gathering.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Selection, ''lēctiō senātūs'', the revision of the Senate's roll.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A reading.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Reading matter; a passage.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|lesson]]; a lecture.^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A version of a text.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[lēctiuncula]]
+ * [[lēctiōnārium]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[legō]]
+ * [[lēctor]]
+ * [[en|lesson]]
+ * [[en|lection]]
+ * [[en|lecture]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}