lector

(Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
2. A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
3. (US, historical) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
4. A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.

Verb

1. To perform service as a lector in a religious context.
2. To do a voice-over translation of a film.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈlɛktə(ɹ)/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: lector

Συγγενές με Πολωνικά: lektor

In summary

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

Έννοιες

αναγνώστης

λέκτορας

léktoras

Συνώνυμα

reader

lecturer

don

section man

lay reader

preceptor

gospeller

Μεταφράσεις

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professeur

🧑‍🏫

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