The corpus record — Latin

rectitudo

rectitudo · f

Straightness

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Where it lives

Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

rectĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

rectĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.rectus (post-class.).

I Straightness, directness. Lit., Aggen. ap. Front. p. 46 Goes.—

II Trop., uprightness, rectitude (class. aequitas), Hier. in Isa. 8, 10; 26, 7: hominum, Just. Nov. 13 praef.

In the wild

rectitudinis Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.32.p3
rectitudine Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.12.p2
rectitudinem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.3

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.