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- Latin · borrowed fromlectiō difficilior“more difficult reading”
- English todaylectio difficilior
Borrowed from Latin lectiō difficilior (“more difficult reading”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lectio difficilior
Today it means: The more difficult reading, held to be the more likely when faced with two manuscripts that disagree on a particular reading, according to the principle of lectio difficilior potior. Full definition →
Latin lectiō difficilior