different between lentor vs lector

English

Alternative forms

• lentour (obsolete)

Noun

lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)

1. slowness, sluggishness
2. (obsolete, physics) viscosity
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

     […] she walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […]

Latin

Verb

lentor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of lent?

References

• lentor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lentor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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.

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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.