recta
English
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Noun
recta
- plural of rectum[1]
- 1983, John Oliver Killens, And Then We Heard the Thunder, page 321:
- They were scared deep in their recta, but they leaped out of the foxhole and ran to the rescue, but by the time they got there Bucket-head had already stopped one of the enemy and the rest of them headed back upstream.
References
- The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)
Asturian
Catalan
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology 1
From the feminine ablative singular of rēctus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]
Adverb
rēctā (not comparable)
- directly, straightforward
Etymology 2
See rēctus.
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]
Participle
rēcta
- inflection of rēctus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Pronunciation 2
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.ta/, [ˈreːkt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]
References
- “recta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “recta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- recta 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)
Portuguese
Noun
recta f (plural rectas)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of reta. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Spanish
Derived terms
Further reading
- “recto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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