arrectus

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Latin

Alternative forms

adrēctus

Etymology

From arrigō (“I set up, erect”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈreːk.tus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈrek.tus/,

Participle

arrēctus (feminine arrēcta, neuter arrēctum, comparative arrēctior); first/second-declension participle

perfect passive participle of arrigō: erect, perpendicular, upright; (rare) steep, precipitous
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 21.35
- c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi 9.8

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular				plural
nominative	arrēctus	arrēcta	arrēctum		arrēctī	arrēctae	arrēcta
genitive	arrēctī	arrēctae	arrēctī		arrēctōrum	arrēctārum	arrēctōrum
dative	arrēctō	arrēctae	arrēctō		arrēctīs
accusative	arrēctum	arrēctam	arrēctum		arrēctōs	arrēctās	arrēcta
ablative	arrēctō	arrēctā	arrēctō		arrēctīs
vocative	arrēcte	arrēcta	arrēctum		arrēctī	arrēctae	arrēcta

Derived terms

arrēctārius (adjective)

Descendants

English: arrect, arrector
Old French: arroit
Spanish: arrecho

References

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

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