Latin, meaning: bed, couch 
A draftee or conscript. Also a chosen man or elite soldier, as used in the role: - lectus in sacro comitatu lanciarius - a term for a soldier picked out for service as a javelin-thrower in Imperial field army. 
(Latin) in Rome, an all-purpose couch that could be used in a dining room as a bed or simply as a seat; these couches held up to three people.
bed.