recta

recta

1. plural of rectum[1]
   • 1983: John Oliver Killens, And Then We Heard the Thunder, p321

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

recta

1. feminine singular of rectu

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.ta/

recta

1. feminine singular of recte

From the feminine ablative singular of rēctus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]

rēctā (not comparable)

1. directly, straightforward

See rēctus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/, [ˈreːkt̪äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]

rēcta

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.ta/, [ˈreːkt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/, [ˈrɛkt̪ä]

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

1. feminine singular of recto

recta f (plural rectas)

1. Superseded spelling of reta. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

recta f (plural rectas)

1. straight line
2. straight

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

• “recto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014