lectura

Borrowed from Late Latin lēctūra, from Latin lēctūrus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ləkˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [lekˈtu.ɾa]

lectura f (plural lectures)

1. (uncountable) reading (process)
2. (countable) a reading

• lector
• llegir
• lliçó

lēctūra

1. inflection of lēctūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

lēctūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of lēctūrus

• "lectura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From lectură +‎ -a.

a lectura (third-person singular present lecturează, past participle lecturat) 1st conjugation

1. to read

Borrowed from Late Latin lēctūra, from Latin lēctūrus.

• IPA^(key): /leɡˈtuɾa/ [leɣ̞ˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: lec‧tu‧ra

lectura f (plural lecturas)

1. reading
2. (nonstandard, slang) lecture
3. (printing, dated) a medium size of type equated with the French cicéro and variously equal to 11 or 12 points

   Synonyms: lectura chica, cicero

• Lectura is a false friend and does not mean lecture in the sense of a spoken lesson. The Spanish word for lecture in that sense is conferencia.

• “lectura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024