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Logeion: legō / legere
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Classics Department Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- University of Chicago
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- SOURCE TYPE
- lexical database
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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.
legō / legereSupplies the Latin reading and gathering semantic range without licensing a literal letters claim.
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lēctus → legere
Latin → Latin · inflection
- SOUND
- lēctus is the suppletive-looking past participle used with legere.
- MEANING
- What has been gathered or selected becomes what has been read.
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- Latin lexicography
legō / legerelegere → *leǵ-
Latin → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance
- SOUND
- Latin legere is traditionally assigned to the *leǵ- family; *sleǵ- remains a published alternative.
- MEANING
- Gathering and selecting extend into reading.
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- Indo-European lexicography
legō / legere lexical entryDocuments the Latin gather, choose, and read semantic field.
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legere
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select
EnglishLatin legere cousin
lecture
EnglishLatin legere cousin
select
EnglishLatin legere family with a prefix
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