casus rectus

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Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin cāsus rēctus (literally “straight case”).

Noun[edit]

casus rectus (plural casus recti)

  1. (grammar, dated) The nominative case, sometimes grouped with the vocative case, as a single morphological case contrasted with the oblique case.
    Synonym: direct case

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