recta
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)
Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recta
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recta
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the feminine ablative singular of rēctus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]
Adverb[edit]
rēctā (not comparable)
- directly, straightforward
Etymology 2[edit]
See rēctus.
Pronunciation 1[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]
Participle[edit]
rēcta
- inflection of rēctus:
Pronunciation 2[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.ta/, [ˈreːkt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]
Participle[edit]
rēctā
References[edit]
- “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[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recta
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
recta f (plural rectas)
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
recta
Further reading[edit]
- “recto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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