The story
- Latin · derived fromlectus
- Late Latin · derived fromlectura“reading”
- Middle English · inherited fromlecture
- English todaylecture
From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). Doublet of lector.
Words from the same roots
Latinlectus all →
rhetorolect
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.