The corpus record — Latin

recta

directly

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 4 · 5.51/10k
Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 3 · 3.97/10k
Phormio 4 · 3.69/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Andria 3 · 3.05/10k
Adelphi 3 · 3.03/10k
Pseudolus 3 · 2.71/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 3 · 2.7/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 13 · 2.6/10k

Densest 12 of 100 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. recta — de Vaan

recta 'directly' (P1.+), rector 'ruler, guide' (Cic.+); ergo [adv., prep*] 'therefore, then; on account of (Lex XII+), erga [prep.] 'against, next to; towards' (P1.+), corgo [adv.] 'forwards' (Paul, ex K); arrigere 'to make to stand upright, raise' (P1.+), corrigere 'to make straight, put right' (P1.+), corrector 'who sets right' (Ter.+), derigere (> dirigere 4th c. AD) 'to align, steer, direct' (Andr.+), erigere … — [de Vaan, s.v. recta, p. 531]

2. rectā — Lewis & Short

rectā and rectē,

I advv., v. rego, P. a. fin.

In the wild

recta Celsus, De Medicina 7.7.p14
recta Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1272
recta Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.439
recta Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.7.16
recta Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.7.5
recta Celsus, De Medicina 1.2.p4

6 of 326 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. recta (scan p. 531; entry #1473).

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