Translation
lecture, talk
Word origin
From Latin praelegere, to read something aloud to an audience, built from prae 'before' and legere 'to read'. English arrived at its own word for the same act by the same route, since a lecture is a lectura, a reading.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- praelegere
- English cognates
- lecture, legible, legend, lesson
Examples
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The professor gave a long lecture about the language.
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We listened to the lecture right to the end.
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His lecture on history was very long.
is the talk; prelegi is to give one; preleganto is the person doing it. If you go to an Esperanto congress you will see all three on the programme within the first hour, because the lecture is the movement's favourite format and always has been.
Set it against parolado, which is a speech. A is delivered - at a dinner, a funeral, an opening ceremony - and its job is to move people. A is given, usually with a topic and often with slides, and its job is to explain something. The overlap is real but the default reading is clear enough that choosing the wrong one sounds odd rather than wrong.
Useful collocations: prelegi to lecture on something, to attend a lecture, o a lecture series, prelegvojaĝo a lecture tour, which is a word with a long history in the movement - the early Esperantists paid for the language's spread by touring with talks.
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