recta

English

Noun

recta

1. plural of rectum
   • 1983: John Oliver Killens, And Then We Heard the Thunder, p321

     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.

Anagrams

• Carte, Cater, Trace, acter, caret, carte, cater, crate, creat, react, reäct, trace

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Asturian

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of rectu

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.ta/

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recte

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Latin

Etymology 1

From the feminine ablative singular of rēctus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]

Adverb

rēctā (not comparable)

1. directly, straightforward

Etymology 2

See rēctus.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]

Participle

rēcta

1. inflection of rēctus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.ta/, [ˈreːkt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]

Participle

rēctā

1. ablative feminine singular of rēctus

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)

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Portuguese

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

Noun

recta f (plural rectas)

1. Superseded spelling of reta. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

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Spanish

Noun

recta f (plural rectas)

1. straight line
2. straight

Derived terms

• recta final

 

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

Further reading

• “recto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014