English → Latin
“lecture” in Latin
audītiōa listening, hearing; a rumor, hearsay, report; a lesson, instruction, lecturerecitātiōrecitation (reading aloud)scholaLeisure time given to learning; schooltime, classtime.; A school; a place for learning or instruction.; A student body; moneōto warn, to advise; to remind; to exhort, advise, recommenddoceōto produceēdoceōto teach, instruct or inform thoroughlylegōto collect, gather, bring together, catch; to choose, select; to appoint
The English word lecture itself goes back to Latin lectus, through lectura.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
lecture s.
schola, auditio (the former with reference to the lecturer, a lecture delivered; the latter with reference to the auditory, a lecture heard. ☞ Lectio, recitatio, collegium, in this sense, are not good words). To enter on a course of lectures, *scholas academicas instituere; scholarum initium facere: there is no lecture today, *hodie scholae non habentur: to deliver a lecture, scholam or praelectionem habere: to attend anybody’s lectures, ad scholas alicujus venire, audire aliquem, alicui operam dare: to lecture on anatomy, de anatomia scholam habere.
lecture v.
To delixer a lecture, acroasim facere: to lecture on a subject, legere, praelegere aliquid; scholas habere de re; scholis praecipere aliquid, or de re: to lecture on the Stoic philosophy, scholam Stoicam explicare.
To instruct insolently and dogmatically, *meliora edocere aliquem, or, from context monere, docere, edocere only.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for lecture?
- The usual Latin words for “lecture” are audītiō, recitātiō, schola; also moneō, doceō, ēdoceō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.