lection

Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lesson.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛkʃən/

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lection (countable and uncountable, plural lections)

1. (obsolete) The act of reading.
2. (ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
   • 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:

     This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.

• (a religious reading): lesson

• lectern
• lecture
• lector
• lesson

• IPA^(key): /lekˈtsjon/

lection (plural lectiones)

1. lesson

• leccion
• lectiun

Borrowed from Latin lectio, lectionem. See also leçon.

lection oblique singular, f (oblique plural lections, nominative singular lection, nominative plural lections)

1. election; choice
2. reading (act, process of reading)

• → English: lection