lector

Meanings

1. A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
2. A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
3. 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.

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

Etymology

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“to read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor. Doublet of lecture and lecturer.