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lector
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English
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Etymology
From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
lector (plural lectors)
- (religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
- (education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
- (historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
- 2004 October 27, D. J. R. Bruckner, “New Inflections and Nuance in a Florida Cigar Factory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.
- (television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.
- 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
- The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.
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Translations
lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts
Verb
lector (third-person singular simple present lectors, present participle lectoring, simple past and past participle lectored)
- To perform service as a lector in a religious context.
- To do a voice-over translation of a film.
- 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
- How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectors, feminine plural lectores)
Noun
lector m (plural lectors, feminine lectora, feminine plural lectores)
Related terms
Further reading
- “lector”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫeːk.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɛk.t̪or]
Noun
lēctor m (genitive lēctōris, feminine lēctrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- lēctorīle
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Descendants
References
- “lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "lector", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “lector”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “lĕctor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 235
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Romanian
Etymology
Noun
lector m (plural lectori)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectores, feminine plural lectoras)
Noun
lector m (plural lectores, feminine lectora, feminine plural lectoras)
Noun
lector m (plural lectores)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “lector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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