directura

Latin

Alternative forms

• dērectūra

Etymology

From dīrigō (“arrange in lines”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diː.reːkˈtuː.ra/, [d̪iːreːkˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.rekˈtu.ra/, [d̪irekˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

dīrēctūra f (genitive dīrēctūrae); first declension

1. The action of making something straight, even or level; a level or even surface.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dīrēctūra	dīrēctūrae
Genitive	dīrēctūrae	dīrēctūrārum
Dative	dīrēctūrae	dīrēctūrīs
Accusative	dīrēctūram	dīrēctūrās
Ablative	dīrēctūrā	dīrēctūrīs
Vocative	dīrēctūra	dīrēctūrae

Descendants

• French: droiture
• Italian: dirittura
• Portuguese: direitura
• Spanish: derechura

References

• “directura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• directura 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)
• directura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.