droit

From French droit. Doublet of direct.

• IPA^(key): /dɹɔɪt/

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droit (plural droits)

1. (law) A legal right or entitlement.

Inherited from Old French droit (spelled dreit in Early Old French, such as the Oaths of Strasbourg), inherited from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus. Doublet of direct. In Middle French, it was for a time spelled droict to reflect the original Latin etymology.

• IPA^(key): /dʁwa/ ~ /dʁwɑ/

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droit m (plural droits)

1. right (entitlement)

   Antonym: interdiction

   J'ai le droit de dormir. ― I have the right to sleep.

2. law (study of law)

   Antonym: non-droit

   Il est étudiant en droit. ― He is a law student.

3. (geometry) right angle

   Un angle de trois droits. ― An angle of 270 degrees. (literally, “An angle of three right angles”)

droit (feminine droite, masculine plural droits, feminine plural droites)

1. right (on the right-hand side)

   Antonym: gauche

   Donne-moi ta main droite. ― Give me your right hand.

2. straight (not bent or crooked)

   Antonyms: courbé, tordu

   Une rue droite. ― A straight road.

3. (geometry) right (of an angle)

droit

1. straight, straight on
2. upright, straight, not bent or crooked

   Synonym: juste

   Tenez votre tête droit. ― Keep your head straight.

• endroit

• “droit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

droit m (feminine singular droitte, masculine plural droits, feminine plural droittes)

1. alternative form of droict

• dreit, droict

Inherited from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus.

• (Old French) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾoi̯t/
• (Late Old French) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾo̯et/

droit oblique singular, m (oblique plural droiz or droitz, nominative singular droiz or droitz, nominative plural droit)

1. justice, right (that which is just)

droit m (oblique and nominative feminine singular droite)

1. right; correct; justified
2. right (on the right-hand side)

• Angevin: drait
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: droét
• Gallo: drait
• Middle French: droict (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: dreit
• Picard: droét
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: dret
• Walloon: droet

droit

1. rightly; justly
2. directly

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:droit.

• endroit