rhectae

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῆκται (rhêktai), the plural form of ῥήκτης (rhḗktēs, “breaker, render”), from the verb ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “break, rend”) and the suffix -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.tae̯/, [ˈreːkt̪äe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.te/, [ˈrɛkt̪e]

Noun

rhēctae m pl (genitive rhēctārum); first declension (plural only)

1. A kind of earthquake

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	rhēctae
Genitive	rhēctārum
Dative	rhēctīs
Accusative	rhēctās
Ablative	rhēctīs
Vocative	rhēctae

References

• “rhectae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rhectae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.