Lector

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Lector

Lector is a Latin term for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages the word has come to take various forms, as either a development or a loan

Loanword

A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the Meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself....
, such as , , and . It has various specialized uses:

Academic: The title lector may be applied to lecturer

Lecturer

Lecturer is a term of academic rank. In the United Kingdom lecturer is the name given to university teachers in their first permanent university position....
s and readers

Reader (academic rank)

In the academic rank in the United Kingdom and some universities in Australia and New Zealand, reader is the rank between senior lecturer and professor....
at some universities. There is also the title lector jubilate, which is an equivalent of Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity is an advanced academic degree in Divinity . Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christianity theology or related religion subjects....
. In language teaching at universities in Britain

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, a foreign native speaker of a Slavonic language is often called a lektor or lector.

Ecclesiastical: A religious reader is sometimes referred to as a lector.

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Lector is a Latin term for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages the word has come to take various forms, as either a development or a loan

Loanword

Lecturer

Lecturer is a term of academic rank. In the United Kingdom lecturer is the name given to university teachers in their first permanent university position....
s and readers

Reader (academic rank)

Doctor of Divinity

United Kingdom

Liturgical book

A liturgical book is a book published by the authority of a Christian Clergy, that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its official religious services....
(lectionary). The Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
has a rite

Rite

A rite is a subsesquitent contemporary file of complaints that are sent to the secretary of taste and is a jeremiah was a bull frog.Rites fall into three major categories:...
by which it formally institutes men studying for the priesthood and diaconate as lectors.

Television: In Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, a lektor is a (usually male) reader who provides the Polish voice-over

Voice-over

The term voice-over refers to a production technique where a Diegetic#Film_sound_and_music voice is broadcast live or pre-recorded in radio, television, film, theatre and/or presentation....
on foreign-language programmes and films where the Gavrilov translation

Gavrilov translation

A Gavrilov translation is a term used for Russian language localisations of foreign film where Dubbing is done by a single, usually male, Voice acting, and the original audio can also be heard....
technique is used. This is the standard localization

Localization

Localization or localisation may refer to:* GSM localization, a technique for determining the location of a user of a cell phone or wireless transceiver...
technique on Polish television and many DVDs; full dubbing

Dub localization

Dub localization, also often simply referred to as localization, of which it is a form, is the practice of altering the dubbing translation of a foreign language film or television series to further adapt it for a "local" audience....
is generally reserved for children's material.

Other: Historically, the lector or reader in a cigar factory

Cigar

A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, the Philippines, and the Eastern United States....
entertained workers by reading books or newspapers aloud.