directus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“lay straight; direct; distribute”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈrek.tus/, [diːˈrɛk.tʊs]
Audio (Classical) (file)

Adjective

dīrectus m (feminine dīrecta, neuter dīrectum); first/second declension

laid straight, arranged in lines, having been arranged in lines
(by extension) direct, straight; level; upright
directed, steered, having been directed
distributed, scattered, having been distributed

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	dīrectus	dīrecta	dīrectum	dīrectī	dīrectae	dīrecta
Genitive	dīrectī	dīrectae	dīrectī	dīrectōrum	dīrectārum	dīrectōrum
Dative	dīrectō	dīrectae	dīrectō	dīrectīs	dīrectīs	dīrectīs
Accusative	dīrectum	dīrectam	dīrectum	dīrectōs	dīrectās	dīrecta
Ablative	dīrectō	dīrectā	dīrectō	dīrectīs	dīrectīs	dīrectīs
Vocative	dīrecte	dīrecta	dīrectum	dīrectī	dīrectae	dīrecta

Descendants

Italian: diritto
Sardinian: diritu
Sicilian: dirittu
Venetian: dirito
→ Albanian: drejtë
→ Asturian: directu
→ Catalan: direct
→ Dutch: direct
→ English: direct
→ French: direct
→ Friulian: diret
→ German: direkt
→ Italian: diretto
→ Ladin: diret
→ Norman: direct
→ Occitan: directe
→ Old Irish: díriuch
- Irish: díreach
- Manx: jeeragh
- Scottish Gaelic: dìreach
→ Portuguese: direto
→ Romanian: direct
→ Spanish: directo
→ Swedish: direkt
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērēctus
- Eastern Romance:
  - Megleno-Romanian: dirept
  - Romanian: derept, dirept
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: derechu
- Old Portuguese: dereito
  - Galician: dereito
  - Portuguese: direito
    - Guinea-Bissau Creole: direta, diritu
    - Kabuverdianu: direta, réta, dretu
- Old Spanish:
  - Ladino: derecho
  - Spanish: derecho, drecho
    - → English: derecho
    - → Papiamentu: derecho, drechi
- Sardinian: daretu, deretu
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dīrēctiāre
- Italian: drizzare
- Old French: drecier, drecer, dresser, drescer
  - French: dresser
  - → Middle English: dressen
    - English: dress
      - → Japanese: ドレス (doresu)
      - → Korean: 드레스 (deureseu)
      - → Norwegian: dress
      - → Pennsylvania German: Dress
    - Scots: dress
  - ⇒ Old French: drecëur, drecëure (noun)
    - → Middle English: dressure, dressor, dressour
      - English: dresser
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: dreçar
  - Occitan: dreçar
- Old Spanish:
  - Spanish: derezar
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Friulian: dreçâ
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *indīrectiāre
  - Italian: indrizzare
    - → Maltese: indirizz
  - Old Portuguese:
    - Galician: enderezar
    - Portuguese: endereçar
  - Old Spanish:
    - Spanish: enderezar
- ⇒ with prefix a-
  - Old French: adrecier, adrecer, adrescer
    - French: adresser, adresse (see there for further descendants)
    - Norman: adrècher, adréchi
    - → Middle English: adressen
      - English: address (see there for further descendants)
      - Scots: address
  - Old Occitan:
    - Catalan: adreçar
    - Occitan: adreçar
  - Old Spanish:
    - Spanish: aderezar
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *drēctus
- Dalmatian: drat
- Eastern Romance:
  - Aromanian: ãndreptu, ãdreptu, adreptu, dreptu, ndreptu, adireptu (prefixed)
  - Romanian: drept
- Italian: dritto
- Old French: droit, dreit, droict
  - Middle French: droict, droit
    - French: droit
      - ⇒ French: adroit
        → English: adroit
        → German: adrett
        → Danish: adræt
  - Norman: drouait, drait
  - Walloon: droet
- Old Occitan:
  - Occitan: drech, dreit, dret
  - Old Catalan: dret
    - Catalan: dret
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Friulian: dret
  - Ladin: dërt
  - Romansch: dretg, dret
- Sardinian: dritu
- Sicilian: drittu
- → Albanian: drejtë

References

directus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
directus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
directus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum

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