rectum

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EnglishEdit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktəm/

NounEdit

rectum (plural recta or rectums)

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

Derived termsEdit

• rectal

TranslationsEdit

terminal part of the large intestine

• Arabic: مُسْتَقِيم‏‎ m (mustaqīm)

  Egyptian Arabic: مستقيم‏‎ m (mustaqim)

• Armenian: ուղիղ աղիք (ułił ałikʿ), վերջնաղիք (hy) (verǰnałikʿ)
• Catalan: recte (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: konečník (cs) m
• Dutch: endeldarm (nl) m
• Estonian: pärasool
• Finnish: peräsuoli (fi)
• French: rectum (fr) m
• Georgian: სწორი ნაწლავი (sc̣ori nac̣lavi)
• German: Rektum (de) n, Mastdarm m, Enddarm (de) m
• Greek: ορθό (el) n (orthó)
• Hebrew: כרכשת‏‎ (he) f (kharkéshet)
• Hungarian: végbél (hu)
• Irish: athán m, driseachán m, reicteam m
• Italian: retto (it) m
• Japanese: 直腸 (ja) (ちょくちょう, chokuchō)

• Korean: 직장 (ko) (jikjang)
• Lule Sami: luogge
• Maltese: rektum m
• Maori: tōngātiko
• Navajo: ajilchiiʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: endetarm m

  Nynorsk: endetarm m

• Polish: odbytnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: reto (pt) m
• Russian: пряма́я кишка́ (ru) f (prjamája kišká), ре́ктум m (rɛ́ktum)
• 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

See alsoEdit

• anus
• colon
• latus rectum

Further readingEdit

• rectum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• rectum in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• rectum at OneLook Dictionary Search

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin rectum (intestinum) (meaning straight intestine). See right

NounEdit

rectum m (plural rectums)

1. (anatomy) rectum

Further readingEdit

• “rectum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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LatinEdit

VerbEdit

rēctum

1. supine of regō

ParticipleEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

• rectum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “rectum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “rectum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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