rectum

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rectum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rectum, abbreviation of Latin rectum intestinum (“the straight intestine”), rectum, neuter of rectus (“straight”). See right.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktəm/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

rectum (plural recta or rectums)

1. (anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass.

Derived terms

• rectal

Translations

terminal part of the large intestine

• Afrikaans: rektum (af)
• Arabic: مُسْتَقِيم m (mustaqīm)

  Egyptian Arabic: مستقيم m (mustaqim)

• Armenian: ուղիղ աղիք (uġiġ aġikʻ), վերջնաղիք (hy) (verǰnaġikʻ)
• Catalan: recte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直腸／直肠 (zh) (zhícháng), 直肠 (zh) (zhícháng)

• Czech: konečník (cs) m
• Danish: endetarm (da) c
• Dutch: endeldarm (nl) m
• Estonian: pärasool
• Finnish: peräsuoli (fi)
• French: rectum (fr) m
• Galician: recto (gl) m, cenzo m
• Georgian: სწორი ნაწლავი (sc̣ori nac̣lavi)
• German: Rektum (de) n, Mastdarm m, Enddarm (de) m
• Greek: ορθό (el) n (orthó)

  Ancient: πρωκτός m (prōktós)

• Hebrew: כרכשת (he) f (kharkéshet)
• Hungarian: végbél (hu)
• Irish: athán m, driseachán m, reicteam m
• Italian: retto (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 直腸 (ja) (ちょくちょう, chokuchō)
• Korean: 직장 (ko) (jikjang)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: ānus (la) m
• Lule Sami: luogge
• Macedonian: ректум m (rektum), чмарно црево m (čmarno crevo)
• Maltese: rektum m, il-musrana dritta f
• Maori: tōngātiko
• Navajo: ajilchiiʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: endetarm m

  Nynorsk: endetarm m

• Polish: odbytnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: reto (pt) m
• Quechua: uquti
• Russian: пряма́я кишка́ (ru) f (prjamája kišká), ре́ктум m (rɛ́ktum)
• Sanskrit: गुद (sa) n (guda), पायु (sa) m (pāyu), भसद् (sa) f (bhasad), लुब्धक (sa) m (lubdhaka), सीध्र (sa) n (sīdhra)
• Scottish Gaelic: tòn f, màs m
• Spanish: recto (es) m
• Swedish: ändtarm (sv) c, rektum (sv)
• Tagalog: tumbong
• Turkish: rektum (tr)
• Vietnamese: ruột thẳng, trực tràng (vi)
• Welsh: rhefr m
• Westrobothnian:

See also

• anus
• colon
• latus rectum

Further reading

• “rectum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rectum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rectum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rectum (intestīnum) (“straight intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.tɔm/

Noun

rectum m (plural rectums)

1. (anatomy) rectum

Further reading

• “rectum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) rēctum

1. accusative supine of regō

Participle

(deprecated template usage) rēctum

1. nominative neuter singular of rēctus
2. accusative masculine singular of rēctus
3. accusative neuter singular of rēctus
4. vocative neuter singular of rēctus

References

• “rectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rectum 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)
• rectum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum
    
  • (ambiguous) you were right in...; you did right to..: recte, bene fecisti quod...
    
  • (ambiguous) a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to congratulate oneself on one's clear conscience: conscientia recte factorum erigi
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure, merito)
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure) quidem
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: recte, iure id quidem