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English
Pronunciation
Verb
dret
- Obsolete spelling of drate; simple past of drite.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan dret, from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrectus. Cognate with Occitan drech, dreit, French droit, Sicilian drittu. Doublet of directe.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dret (feminine dreta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural dretes)
- right; opposite of left
- Synonym: destre
- Antonyms: esquerre, sinistre
- straight (not crooked or bent)
- Synonym: recte
- Antonym: corb
- upright, erect, standing
- Synonyms: dempeus, vertical
Derived terms
Noun
dret m (plural drets)
- right (something one is allowed to do)
- law (collectively, all the laws to which citizens are subject)
- law (the science)
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
dret (feminine drette, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettes)
- (obsolete) (slang) form of droit
1984, Honoré de Balzac, chapter XVIII, in La muse du département ; Un prince de la bohème, page 98:Mais je ne sais rien, moi ! Je n’ai pas besoin de vous dire qu’il y a une sentinelle au dret de la tour.- But I don't know anything! I don't need to tell you that there is a guard to the right of the tower.
Adverb
dret
- (obsolete) exactly, precisely
unknown, French folk song, “Il était un p'tit cordonnier”:Quand à la maison il rentrait
Sa petite femme il battait.
Il la battait si juste
Qu'il n'y'avait rien d' plus juste.
Il la battait tout dret,
Pas plus qu'il n'en fallait.- When he'd come home
He'd beat his little wife
He beat her so fine
There was nothing more fine
He beat her so right
No more than was needed
References
Friulian
Etymology
From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.
Adjective
dret
- right
- straight, direct
Middle English
Noun
dret
- (rare) alternative form of dred
Romansch
Etymology
From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.
Noun
dret m (plural drets)
- (law, Puter, Vallader) law
Adjective
dret m (feminine singular dretta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettas)
- (Puter, Vallader) right (direction)
Slovene
Verb
dret
- supine of dreti
Swedish
Etymology
Cognate with English dirt.
Noun
dret c
- (dialectal) shit (excrement; dirt, filth; (figuratively) crap)
Usage notes
Sometimes used as an intensifier, similar to "skit-" – "dretfull" means "shit-faced."
Declension
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