lectulus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin lectus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin lectulus

From lectus (“bed”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛk.tʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛk.tu.lus]

Noun

lectulus m (genitive lectulī); second declension

1. A small couch or bed
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.9:

     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

Related terms

• lectīca
• lectīcula
• lectīcārius
• lectus

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.