recta

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

recta

1. plural of rectum
   • 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.

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of rectu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrɛk.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrɛk.ta]

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recte

Noun

recta f (plural rectes)

1. straight line

   Synonym: línia recta

Derived terms

• recta numèrica

Latin

Etymology 1

From the feminine ablative singular of rēctus.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

rēctā (not comparable)

1. directly, straightforward

Etymology 2

See rēctus.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
• (modern Italianate 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.ta/, [ˈreːkt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate 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)

Portuguese

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

Noun

recta f (plural rectas)

1. 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

Noun

recta f (plural rectas)

1. straight line
2. straight

Derived terms

• recta final
• recta numérica

 

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

Further reading

• “recto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28