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WORD DOSSIERS
noun · verbexact headword
lecture
A formal instructional talk, named through a Latin lineage whose central action was reading.
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intellect
The power or capacity of knowing and reasoning, inherited from Latin intellectus and intellegere.
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intelligence
Capacity for understanding, information, or the organizations that gather it; inherited through French from Latin intelligentia.
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lesson
A unit of instruction or something learned, descending through a word that first named an act or selection of reading.
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select
To choose or mark out from a group, borrowed from Latin selectus and seligere, literally gathering apart.
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 3
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Does the root prove that reading is “gathering letters”?
No. Latin legere covers gathering, selecting, and reading, but the precise semantic steps cannot be recovered from a slogan alone.
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Was a lecture originally spoken?
The immediate Latin ancestor lectūra meant an act of reading. The instructional spoken discourse is a later semantic development.
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Is select descended from English lecture or lesson?
No. The English words are cousins. Select comes from Latin selectus and seligere; lecture and lesson take other Latin formations that independently reach legere.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
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A lecture began as reading, not speaking.
Latin lectūra named an act of reading before English made it a discourse.
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To select is to gather apart.
Latin seligere combines se- “apart” with legere “gather, select.” The same gathering verb sits behind lecture, lesson, legend, and collect.
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DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
A passage in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum cites a Lecture by Nehemiah Grew about varieties of taste read before the Royal Society.
lecture / lecture / 1704
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciencesexact attested form / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexicographic first use
English lexical record
lecture / lecture / 15th century
Lecture — Word Historyexact attested form / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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