rection

From Latin rectio, from regere (“to rule, to govern”).

rection (plural rections)

1. (grammar, archaic) regimen; government; the rules governing the syntax, rules of agreement of a language.

   Synonyms: government, regimen

   Coordinate terms: agreement, concord, concordance (obsolete)

   • 1832, Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr., Manual Hebrew and English Lexicon:

     rection to a place

• Citroen, Citroën, cointer, INTERCO, cerotin, noticer

Learned borrowing from Latin rectiō.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.sjɔ̃/

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rection f (plural rections)

1. (grammar) rection, regimen, government

• régir

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