# rectus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēctus (“straight, upright”), clipping of mūsculus rēctus (“straight muscle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹɛk.təs/

### Noun

rectus (plural recti)
* (anatomy) Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc.
    Hyponyms: rectus abdominis, rectus capitis anterior, rectus capitis lateralis, rectus capitis posterior major, rectus capitis posterior minor, rectus femoris
** (anatomy) Ellipsis of rectus abdominis.
** (anatomy) Any of a number of muscles controlling the movement of the eyeball.
    Hyponyms: superior rectus, inferior rectus, medial rectus, lateral rectus

#### Related terms

* casus rectus
* diastasis recti
* gyrus rectus
* rectus casus
* rectus muscle
* status rectus

### References

* “rectus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “rectus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* Crutes, Curets, Custer, cruets, cruset, curest, curets, eructs, recuts, truces

## Latin
### Etymology

Perfect passive participle of regō (“to keep or lead straight, to guide”). Inherited from Proto-Italic *rektos, corresponding to Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈreːk.tus/, [ˈreːkt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈrek.tus/, [ˈrɛkt̪us]

### Participle

rēctus (feminine rēcta, neuter rēctum, comparative rēctior, superlative rēctissimus, adverb rēctē); first/second-declension participle
* led straight along, drawn in a straight line, straight, upright.
    Synonym: prōrsus
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.23:Quae rectis lineis suos ordines servantWhich preserve their order in straight lines
* (in general) right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting.
* (in particular) morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good, proper, honest.
    Antonyms: prāvus, iniūrius
** 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.12.15:Via stultī rēcta in oculīs eius; quī autem sapiēns est audit cōnsilia.The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

#### Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Descendants

* Inherited:
** Friulian: ret
** Italian: retto, ritto
** Old Galician-Portuguese: reyto
** Sicilian: rittu
* Borrowed:
** → Catalan: recte
** → English: recta, rectus, recto
** → Italian: recto
** → Portuguese: reto
** → Spanish: recto

### References

* “rectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “rectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* rectus 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)
* rectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum (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