rection
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin rectio, from regere (“to rule or govern”).
Noun edit
rection (plural rections)
- (grammar, archaic) regimen; government; the rules governing the syntax, rules of agreement of a language.
- Synonyms: government, regimen
- Coordinate terms: agreement, concord, concordance (obsolete)
- 1832, Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr., Manual Hebrew and English Lexicon:
- rection to a place
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin rectiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rection f (plural rections)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.