dret

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See also: drèt

English

Pronunciation

Verb

dret

  1. 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)

  1. right; opposite of left
    Synonym: destre
    Antonyms: esquerre, sinistre
  2. straight (not crooked or bent)
    Synonym: recte
    Antonym: corb
  3. upright, erect, standing
    Synonyms: dempeus, vertical

Derived terms

Noun

dret m (plural drets)

  1. right (something one is allowed to do)
  2. law (collectively, all the laws to which citizens are subject)
  3. law (the science)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ dret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

dret (feminine drette, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettes)

  1. (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

  1. (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

Alternative forms

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Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.

Adjective

dret

  1. right
  2. straight, direct

Middle English

Noun

dret

  1. (rare) alternative form of dred

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.

Noun

dret m (plural drets)

  1. (law, Puter, Vallader) law

Adjective

dret m (feminine singular dretta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettas)

  1. (Puter, Vallader) right (direction)

Slovene

Verb

dret

  1. supine of dreti

Swedish

Etymology

Cognate with English dirt.

Noun

dret c

  1. (dialectal) shit (excrement; dirt, filth; (figuratively) crap)

Usage notes

Sometimes used as an intensifier, similar to "skit-" – "dretfull" means "shit-faced."

Declension

Declension of dret
nominative genitive
singular indefinite dret drets
definite dreten dretens
plural indefinite
definite

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