retto
Italian
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Etymology 1
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From Latin rēctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“straightened, right”).
Adjective
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- (obsolete, literally) straight
- (archaic, figuratively) honest, upright
- (archaic, figuratively) righteous
- (geometry) right (of an angle); straight (of a line)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier (2002), Canto XIII, p. 236, vv. 100-102:
- «[...] non si est dare primum motum esse, ¶ o se del mezzo cerchio far si puote ¶ trïangol sì ch'un retto non avesse. [...]»
- «[...] not [to know] if the being of a prime mover is acknowledgeable, ¶ or if in semicircle can be made ¶ triangle so that it have no right [angle]. [...]»
- «[...] non si est dare primum motum esse, ¶ o se del mezzo cerchio far si puote ¶ trïangol sì ch'un retto non avesse. [...]»
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier (2002), Canto XIII, p. 236, vv. 100-102:
- (anatomy) rectus
- (grammar, of a case) direct
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Etymology 2
Ellipsis of intestino retto, from Latin rēctum intestīnum (literally “straight intestine”).
Noun
retto m (plural retti) (anatomy)
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