lector

• lectour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”).

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.

• Colter, colter

Borrowed from Latin lēctor, lēctōrem.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ləkˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /lekˈtoɾ/

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

1. reading

lector m (plural lectora)

1. reader

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

From legō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈleːk.tor/, [ˈɫeːk.tɔr]

lēctor m (genitive lēctōris); third declension

1. a reader (person who reads to someone)

Third declension.

• lēctorīle

• 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

Borrowed from Latin lēctor, lēctōrem.

• IPA^(key): /leɡˈtoɾ/, [leɣˈt̪oɾ]

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

1. reading
2. reading aloud to other people

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

1. reader