recta

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recta

1. plural of rectum^[1]
   • 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.

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

recta

1. feminine singular of rectu

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

recta

1. feminine singular of recte

recta f (plural rectes)

1. straight line

   Synonym: línia recta

• recta numèrica

Clipping of rēctā viā, an ablativus prosecutivus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreːk.taː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛk.t̪a]

rēctā (not comparable)

1. directly, straightforward, straightway, right on

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rēcta

1. inflection of rēctus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

rēctā

1. ablative feminine singular of rēctus

• “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)

recta f (plural rectas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of reta. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

• IPA^(key): /ˈreɡta/ [ˈreɣ̞.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eɡta
• Syllabification: rec‧ta

recta f (plural rectas)

1. straight line
2. straight

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

• “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], 10 December 2024