drictus

Latin

Etymology

From dīrēctus. Attested beginning from the fifth century.[1]

The spelling reflects an Italo-Western merger of Latin ē and i as /e/.

Adjective

drictus (feminine dricta, neuter drictum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

  1. straight
  2. right (on the right-hand side)

Noun

drictus m (genitive drictī); second declension (Late Latin)

  1. right (entitlement)
  2. law

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: dreptu ⇒ ãndreptu, ãdreptu, adreptu, ndreptu, adireptu
    • Romanian: drept
    • → Albanian: drejtë
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: drêt
    • Old French: droit, dreit, droict
      • Angevin: drait
      • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: droét
      • Gallo: drait
      • Middle French: droict (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: dreit
      • Picard: droét
      • Poitevin-Saintongeais: dret
      • Walloon: droet
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: dreitu, drechu
    • Galician: dreito

References
  1. Brachet, Auguste, A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue, tr. G. W. Kitchin, M. A., Clarendon Press, 1869, p. 50
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