# dret
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: drĕt, IPA: /dɹɛt/
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Verb

dret
* Obsolete spelling of drate; simple past of drite [18th century]

### Anagrams

* RDTE, RTed, retd, ret'd, retd., RDT&E

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan dret, from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrectus. Cognate with Occitan drech, dreit, French droit, Sicilian drittu. Doublet of directe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈdɾɛt]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈdɾət]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈdɾet]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

dret (feminine dreta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural dretes)
* right; opposite of left
    Synonym: destre
    Antonyms: esquerre, sinistre
* straight (not crooked or bent)
    Synonym: recte
    Antonym: corb
* upright, erect, standing
    Synonyms: dempeus, vertical

#### Derived terms

* a tort i a dret
* dret humà
* dretà
* dreta
* dreter
* dretisme

#### Related terms

* indret

### Noun

dret m (plural drets)
* right (something one is allowed to do)
* law (collectively, all the laws to which citizens are subject)
* law (the science)

#### Derived terms

* drets humans

### References

* ↑ “dret”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “dret” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “dret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “dret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʁɛ/

### Adjective

dret (feminine drette, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettes)
* (obsolete) (slang) form of droit
** 1984, Honoré de Balzac, chapter XVIII, in La muse du département ; Un prince de la bohème‎, page 98:Mais je ne sais rien, moi ! Je n’ai pas besoin de vous dire qu’il y a une sentinelle au dret de la tour.But I don't know anything! I don't need to tell you that there is a guard to the right of the tower.

### Adverb

dret
* (obsolete) exactly, precisely
** unknown, French folk song, “Il était un p'tit cordonnier”‎:Quand à la maison il rentrait Sa petite femme il battait. Il la battait si juste Qu’il n’y’avait rien d’ plus juste. Il la battait tout dret, Pas plus qu’il n’en fallait.When he'd come home He'd beat his little wife He beat her so fine There was nothing more fine He beat her so right No more than was needed

#### Alternative forms

* dreit

### References

* “dret” in L'Internaute.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.

### Adjective

dret
* right
* straight, direct

#### Related terms

* drečâ
* drete

## Middle English
### Noun

dret
* (rare) Alternative form of dred

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* dretg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

### Etymology

From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.

### Noun

dret m (plural drets)
* (law, Puter, Vallader) law

### Adjective

dret m (feminine singular dretta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettas)
* (Puter, Vallader) right (direction)

## Slovene
### Verb

dret
* supine of dreti

## Swedish
### Etymology

Cognate with English dirt.

### Noun

dret c
* (dialectal) shit (excrement; dirt, filth; (figuratively) crap)

#### Usage notes

Sometimes used as an intensifier, similar to "skit-" – "dretfull" means "shit-faced."

#### Declension
### References

* dret in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Fula Ordboken
* Slangopedia