# recte
## English
### Etymology

From Latin recte (“rightly, correctly”).

### Adverb

recte (not comparable)
* 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 O'Brien, "An Unpublished Survey of the Plantation of Munster in 1622", The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Sixth Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 p.132: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 [ recte COMMITTEE ]
** 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')

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* -crete, Crete, erect, terce

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈrɛk.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈrɛk.te]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

recte (feminine recta, masculine and feminine plural rectes)
* straight (not crooked or bent)
    Synonym: dret
    Antonym: corb

#### Adverb

recte
* straight

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin rēctum.

#### Noun

recte m (plural rectes)
* (anatomy) rectum

##### Derived terms

* rectal

### Further reading

* “recte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Adverb

rēctē (comparative rēctius, superlative rēctissimē)
* in an upright position, vertically
    Antonyms: oblique, transverse
* without error, accurately, correctly
    Antonyms: prave, falso, perperam
* with good reason, justifiably
    Antonyms: absurde, perperam
* in accordance with truth or fact, rightly
    Antonym: falso
* in accordance with the law, legitimately, lawfully
    Synonyms: iure, legitime, ex lege
    Antonym: contra legem
* according to the rules, correctly
    Antonyms: vitiose, mendose
* with equity, justly, fairly
    Synonyms: aeque, iuste
    Antonyms: inique, iniuste
* with moral rectitude, rightly
    Synonym: honeste
    Antonym: turpiter
* properly, thoroughly, well
    Antonym: inepte

### Participle

rēcte
* vocative masculine singular of rēctus

### References

* 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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recte.

### Adverb

recte
* recte