rectum

Borrowed from New Latin rectum, clipping of Latin rectum intestinum (literally “the straight intestine”), rectum, neuter of rectus (“straight”). See right.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛktəm/, /ˈɹɛkˌtʌm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛktəm

rectum (plural recta or rectums)

1. (anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.

• per rectum
• vas rectum
• rectal

• latus rectum

• nomen rectum (probably etymologically unrelated)

• rectum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “rectum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rectum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “rectum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from Latin rectum (intestīnum) (“straight intestine”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.tɔm/

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rectum m (plural rectums)

1. (anatomy) rectum

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

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

rēctum n (genitive rēctī); second declension

1. good, uprightness, rectitude, virtue

   Synonyms: bonum, virtūs

   Antonyms: vitium, culpa, malum, iniūria, noxa, crīmen, peccātum, dēlictum, error

Second-declension noun (neuter).

rēctum

1. accusative supine of regō

rēctum

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

• “rectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rectum", 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)
• rectum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• rectum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum
    
  • (ambiguous) you were right in...; you did right to..: recte, bene fecisti quod...
    
  • (ambiguous) a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to congratulate oneself on one's clear conscience: conscientia recte factorum erigi
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure, merito)
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure) quidem
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: recte, iure id quidem