directus

From Proto-Italic *dwizrektos, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“lay straight; direct; distribute”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈreːk.tus/, [d̪iːˈreːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈrek.tus/, [d̪iˈrɛkt̪us]

dīrēctus (feminine dīrēcta, neuter dīrēctum); first/second-declension participle

1. laid straight, arranged in lines, having been arranged in lines
2. (by extension) direct, straight; level; upright
3. directed, steered, having been directed
4. distributed, scattered, having been distributed

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: diritto
• Sardinian: diritu
• Sicilian: dirittu
• Venetian: dirito
• → Albanian: drejtë
• → Asturian: directu
• → Catalan: direct
• → Danish: direkte
• → Dutch: direct
• → English: direct
• → French: direct
• → Friulian: diret
• → German: direkt
• → Italian: diretto
• → Ladin: diret
• → Norman: direct
• → Occitan: directe
• → Old Irish: díriuch, díriug
  • Irish: díreach
  • Manx: jeeragh
  • Scottish Gaelic: dìreach
• → Portuguese: direto
• → Romanian: direct
• → Spanish: directo
• → Swedish: direkt
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērēctus (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dīrēctiāre (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Late Latin: drictus (see there for further descendants)

• “directus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• directus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• directus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum