recta

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recta

1. plural of rectum^[1]
   • 1983, John Oliver Killens, And Then We Heard the Thunder, page 321:

     They were scared deep in their recta, but they leaped out of the foxhole and ran to the rescue, but by the time they got there Bucket-head had already stopped one of the enemy and the rest of them headed back upstream.

• Carte, Trace, reäct, acter, Certa, carte, crate, cater, caret, react, Cater, creat, trace

recta

1. feminine singular of rectu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

recta

1. feminine singular of recte

recta f (plural rectes)

1. straight line

   Synonym: línia recta

• recta numèrica

From the feminine ablative singular of rēctus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/,

rēctā (not comparable)

1. directly, straightforward

See rēctus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.taː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/,

rēcta

1. inflection of rēctus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.ta/,

rēctā

1. ablative feminine singular of rēctus

• “recta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “recta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• recta 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)

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

recta f (plural rectas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of reta. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

recta f (plural rectas)

1. straight line
2. straight

recta

1. feminine singular of recto

• “recto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014