îndrepta

Romanian

Alternative forms

• drepta — obsolete
• înderepta, îndirepta — obsolete

Etymology

From drept or from în + Vulgar Latin root *directāre, or from *indirectāre, from Latin dīrectus. Compare Aromanian ndreptu/ndriptedz, ndriptari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨn.drepˈta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: în‧drep‧ta

Verb

a îndrepta (third-person singular present îndreaptă or (rare or dated) îndreptează, past participle îndreptat) 1st conj.

1. (transitive, literal) to straighten
2. (transitive) to mend, correct, improve, recover
3. (reflexive, of people or weather) to change oneself for the better
4. (reflexive, obsolete, of an army) to reorganise
5. (reflexive, dated) to recover after sickness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:se însănătoși

6. (reflexive, regional, cooperage; of the gaps between a new barrel’s staves) to fill in after the wood swells with moisture
7. (transitive, obsolete, very rare) to excuse
8. (reflexive, now formal) to head
9. (transitive) to direct to a place
10. (transitive) to point, direct, address something in a certain direction

    a își îndrepta privirea ― to turn one’s gaze

Conjugation

Rare alternative conjugation with -ez:

Derived terms

• îndreptar
• îndreptare

References

• îndrepta in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)