lecture: [14] The Latin verb legere has been a prodigious contributor to English vocabulary. It originally meant ‘gather, choose’, and in that guise has given us collect, elect, elegant, intelligent, legion [13] (etymologically a ‘chosen’ body), neglect, and select. It subsequently developed semantically to ‘read’, and from that mode English has taken lecture, lectern [14] (from the medieval Latin derivative lectrīnum), legend [14] (etymologically ‘things to be read’), and lesson. => collect, elect, elegant, intelligent, legend, legible, legion, lesson, neglect, select
lecture (n.)
late 14c., "action of reading, that which is read," from Medieval Latin lectura "a reading, lecture," from Latin lectus, past participle of legere "to read," originally "to gather, collect, pick out, choose" (compare election), from PIE *leg- (1) "to pick together, gather, collect" (cognates: Greek legein "to say, tell, speak, declare," originally, in Homer, "to pick out, select, collect, enumerate;" lexis "speech, diction;" logos "word, speech, thought, account;" Latin lignum "wood, firewood," literally "that which is gathered").
To read is to "pick out words." Meaning "action of reading (a lesson) aloud" is from 1520s. That of "a discourse on a given subject before an audience for purposes of instruction" is from 1530s.
lecture (v.)
1580s, from lecture (n.). Meaning "to address severely and at length" is from 1706. Related: Lectured; lecturing.
例文
1. Chuck would lecture me，telling me to get a haircut.
チャックは私を数えて、私に髪を整理させてくれます。
2.Within this lecture I cannot pretend to deal adequately with dreams.
今回の講座では、夢の世界を徹底的に分析できるとは自慢できない。
3.Our captain gave us a stern lecture on safety.
船長は安全問題について私たちを厳しく叱った。
4.We picked up our conference materials and filed into the lecture hall.
私たちは会議の材料を受け取った後、一貫して講演室に入った。
5.Inhis lecture Riemann covered an enormous variety of topics.