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lectione

lectione is a Latin form of lectio, meaning “reading; selection”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 5.16: sed illud os, illam impuritatem caeni fuisse ut hos iudices legere auderet! quorum lectione duplex imprimeretur rei publicae dedecus: unum, quod tam turpes iudices essent; alterum, quod patefactum cogn …

Jerome, Epistolae 60.10·3: Me quoque, quia pro sodalitate avunculi diligebat, interdum proferebat in medium. Lectione quoque adsidua et meditatione diuturna pectus suum bibliothecam fecerat Christi.

All forms of lectio (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.