Lectîca, lectícæ, f. g. pen. prod. Iuuenal. Cic.A thing like to a bed wherein noble men were borne by sixe seruaunts, a licter.Gestamen lectice.Tacit.Lucubratoria lectica, Vide LVCVBRO.Gestare aliquem lectica. Horat. Inditur lecticæ.Tacit.They put him in a licter.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lectīca, ae, f.I.Lit., a litter, sedan, used at first only on journeys, but afterwards also, for the sake of convenience, in the city: lecticā octophoro ferebatur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, 27: lecticae usum alicui adimere, Suet. Caes. 43: inditus lecticae, Tac. A. 3, 14: lecticae imponere aliquem, Petr. 28: lecticā gestare aliquem, Hor. S. 2, 3, 214: lecticae gestamine uti, Tac. A. 2, 2: in eadem illa lecticā qua ipse delatus eram, eum referre, etc., Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 3: lectica introferri, Liv. 43, 7: lectica formosis imposita calonibus, Sen. Ep. 110, 17: comparare homines ad lecticam,