directus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dwizrektos, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“lay straight; direct; distribute”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈreːk.tus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈrek.tus/,

Adjective

dīrēctus (feminine dīrēcta, neuter dīrēctum); first/second-declension participle

laid straight, arranged in lines, having been arranged in lines
(by extension) direct, straight; level; upright
directed, steered, having been directed
distributed, scattered, having been distributed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	dīrēctus	dīrēcta	dīrēctum	dīrēctī	dīrēctae	dīrēcta
Genitive	dīrēctī	dīrēctae	dīrēctī	dīrēctōrum	dīrēctārum	dīrēctōrum
Dative	dīrēctō	dīrēctae	dīrēctō	dīrēctīs
Accusative	dīrēctum	dīrēctam	dīrēctum	dīrēctōs	dīrēctās	dīrēcta
Ablative	dīrēctō	dīrēctā	dīrēctō	dīrēctīs
Vocative	dīrēcte	dīrēcta	dīrēctum	dīrēctī	dīrēctae	dīrēcta

Descendants

Italian: diritto
Sardinian: diritu
Sicilian: dirittu
Venetian: dirito
→ Albanian: drejtë
→ Asturian: directu
→ Catalan: direct
→ Danish: direkte
→ Dutch: direct
→ English: direct
→ French: direct
→ Friulian: diret
→ German: direkt
→ Italian: diretto
→ Ladin: diret
→ Norman: direct
→ Occitan: directe
→ Old Irish: díriuch, díriug
- Irish: díreach
- Manx: jeeragh
- Scottish Gaelic: dìreach
→ Portuguese: direto
→ Romanian: direct
→ Spanish: directo
→ Swedish: direkt
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērēctus
- Balkan Romance:
  - Megleno-Romanian: dirept
  - Romanian: derept, dirept
- Sardinian:
  - daretu, deretu
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Old Leonese:
    - Asturian: derechu
  - Old Galician-Portuguese: dereito
    - Galician: dereito
    - Portuguese: direito (see there for further descendants)
  - Old Spanish:
    - Ladino: derecho
    - Spanish: derecho, drecho
      - → English: derecho
      - → Papiamentu: derecho, drechi
Vulgar Latin: *dīrēctiāre (see there for further descendants)
⇒ Late Latin: drictus
- Balkan Romance:
  - Aromanian: dreptu ⇒ ãndreptu, ãdreptu, adreptu, ndreptu, adireptu
  - Romanian: drept
  - → Albanian: drejtë
- Dalmatian:
  - drat
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: dritto
  - Sicilian: drittu
    - → Maltese: dritt
- Padanian:
  - Friulian: dret
  - Ladin: dërt
  - Lombard: drecc, dreç, driç
  - Piedmontese: dret, drecc
  - Romansch: dretg, dret
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - Franco-Provençal: drêt
  - Old French: droit, dreit, droict
    - Angevin: drait
    - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: droét
    - Gallo: drait
    - Middle French: droict (see there for further descendants)
    - Norman: dreit
    - Picard: droét
    - Poitevin-Saintongeais: dret
    - Walloon: droet
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Aragonese: dreito
  - Catalan: dret
  - Occitan:
    - Gascon: dret
    - Languedocien: drech, dreit
    - Limousin: drech, dreit
    - Auvergnat: dreit
    - Provençal: drech
    - Vivaro-Alpine: drech, dreit
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Asturian: dreitu, drechu
  - Galician: dreito

References

“directus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
directus 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)
directus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum

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