different between lector vs hector

English

Alternative forms

• lectour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?ctor, from leg? (“I read”).

Noun

lector (plural lectors)

1. A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
2. A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
3. (historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Colter, Cotler, colter

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?ctor, l?ct?rem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /l?k?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /lek?to?/

Adjective

lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectors, feminine plural lectores)

1. reading

Noun

lector m (plural lectora)

1. reader

Related terms

Further reading

• “lector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Etymology

From leg? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?k.tor/, [???e?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lek.tor/, [?l?kt??r]

Noun

l?ctor m (genitive l?ct?ris); third declension

1. a reader

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• l?ctor?le

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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, 1883–1887)
• lector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French lecteur

Noun

lector m (plural lectori)

1. lecturer

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?ctor, l?ct?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??to?/, [le???t?o?]

Adjective

lector (feminine lectora, masculine plural lectores, feminine plural lectoras)

1. reading
2. reading aloud to other people

Noun

lector m (plural lectores, feminine lectora, feminine plural lectoras)

1. reader

Related terms

Further reading

• “lector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hect?r or Ancient Greek ????? (Hékt?r), from ????? (hékt?r, “holding fast”), from ????? (ékhein), present active infinitive of ??? (ékh?, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold; to overpower”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: hec?tor

Noun

hector (plural hectors)

1. Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.

Translations

Verb

hector (third-person singular simple present hectors, present participle hectoring, simple past and past participle hectored)

1. (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.

   Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize
2. (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.

   Synonym: huff

Alternative forms

• hectour (obsolete, rare)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• hector in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

See also

• Not to be confused with hectare.

Anagrams

• Troche, orchet, rochet, rotche, tocher, troche