recto

Borrowed from Latin rēctō foliō (“on the right leaf, on the right page”), the ablative case of the Latin rēctus (“right”). Compare versus (“turned”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛk.toʊ/

recto (plural rectos)

1. The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
2. (printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.
3. (law) A writ of right.

• (front side of a flat object): front

• (front side of a flat object): verso, flipside
• (right-hand page of a book): reverso

• recto-

• Corte, ERCOT, Ector

recto

1. neuter of rectu

recto m (plural rectos)

1. recto

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

Borrowed from Latin [​foliō​] rēctō (literally “on the front of the sheet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛk.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛkto
• Hyphenation: rèc‧to

recto m (invariable)

1. recto (front side of a flat object)

   Antonym: verso

• recto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• certo, corte, torce

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.toː/, [ˈreːkt̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.to/, [ˈrɛkt̪o]

From rēctus (“straight”) +‎ -ō.

rēctō (not comparable)

1. directly

See rēctus.

rēctō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of rēctus

• “recto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• recto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

recto (feminine recta, masculine plural rectos, feminine plural rectas)

1. Superseded spelling of reto. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)

recto m (plural rectos)

1. Superseded spelling of reto. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)

From French recto or Latin recto.

recto n (uncountable)

1. recto

Borrowed from Latin rectus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“straightened, right”).

recto (feminine recta, masculine plural rectos, feminine plural rectas)

1. straight (of a line, pipe, street, etc, never about sexuality.)
2. honest, honorable, upright, righteous, just, fair
3. literal (of a meaning)
4. (geometry) right (of an angle, etc)

• ángulo recto

• recta
• directo
• rectitud
• correcto

Borrowed from Latin rectum (intestinum).

recto m (plural rectos)

1. (anatomy) rectum
2. (anatomy) rectus

• rectal

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