recte

From Latin recte (“rightly, correctly”).

recte (not comparable)

1. Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
   • 1924 December 31, Robert Dunlop and Geo. O'Brien, "An Unpublished Survey of the Plantation of Munster in 1622", The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Sixth Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 p.132:

     The Seignory of Castleton, containing 200 (sic, query recte 12,000) acres

   • 1972 T. P. O'Neill (ed.) Private Sessions of Second Dáil (Dublin) 26 August 1921

     ELECTION OF GRAND COUNCIL

   • 1974 Edmund Colledge THE CAPGRAVE 'AUTOGRAPHS', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, p.142:

     Here is a list of errors not observed by the corrector.

     193: and (recte 'as')

     735: a quartere (add 'ȝеге')

     796: noblel (recte 'noble' or 'nobel')

     1527: him (recte 'hem')

     2455: holid (? recte 'helid')

• Victor Mair, Recte!, Language Log, February 13, 2022

• -crete, Crete, erect, terce

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

Borrowed from Latin rēctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“straightened, right”).

recte (feminine recta, masculine and feminine plural rectes)

1. straight (not crooked or bent)

   Synonym: dret

   Antonym: corb

recte

1. straight

Borrowed from Latin rēctum.

recte m (plural rectes)

1. (anatomy) rectum

• rectal

• “recte”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “recte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “recte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “recte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From rectus (“guided, kept straight”) +‎ -e (“-ly: forming adverbs”), from regere (“to guide, to keep straight”).

rēctē (comparative rēctius, superlative rēctissimē)

1. in an upright position, vertically

   Antonyms: oblique, transverse

2. without error, accurately, correctly

   Antonyms: prave, falso, perperam

3. with good reason, justifiably

   Antonyms: absurde, perperam

4. in accordance with truth or fact, rightly

   Antonym: falso

5. in accordance with the law, legitimately, lawfully

   Synonyms: iure, legitime, ex lege

   Antonym: contra legem

6. according to the rules, correctly

   Antonyms: vitiose, mendose

7. with equity, justly, fairly

   Synonyms: aeque, iuste

   Antonyms: inique, iniuste

8. with moral rectitude, rightly

   Synonym: honeste

   Antonym: turpiter

9. properly, thoroughly, well

   Antonym: inepte

rēcte

1. vocative masculine singular of rēctus

• Oxford Latin Dictionary
• “recte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• recte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) you were right in...; you did right to..: recte, bene fecisti quod...
    
  • (ambiguous) a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to congratulate oneself on one's clear conscience: conscientia recte factorum erigi
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure, merito)
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: et recte (iure) quidem
    
  • (ambiguous) quite rightly: recte, iure id quidem
    

Borrowed from Latin recte.

recte

1. recte