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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛk.tɐ/ [ˈhɛk.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛk.tɐ/ [ˈhɛk.tɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛk.tɐ/ [ˈχɛk.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛk.ta/ [ˈhɛk.ta]

• Hyphenation: rec‧ta

Adjective

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

Noun

recta f (plural rectas)

1. (Brazil, rare) Alternative form of reta
2. (European Portuguese spelling) Pre-reform spelling (used until 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10