lectulus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of lectus

Pronunciation

Noun

lectulus m (genitive lectulī); second declension

  1. A small couch or bed
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.9:
      Repertī sunt duo equitēs Rōmānī quī tē ista cūrā līberārent, et sēsē illa ipsā nocte, paulō ante lūcem, mē in meō lectulō interfectūrōs esse pollicērentur.
      Two Roman knights were found who would release you from that worry, and who would promise that they themselves, that very night, a little before dawn, would kill me in my own bed.
  2. An eating couch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lectulus lectulī
genitive lectulī lectulōrum
dative lectulō lectulīs
accusative lectulum lectulōs
ablative lectulō lectulīs
vocative lectule lectulī

Descendants

    • Spanish: lecho

References

  • lectulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lectulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "lectulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lectulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.