recto

Borrowed from Latin rēctō foliō (“on the right leaf, on the right page”), the ablative case of the Latin rēctus (“right”). Confer versus (“turned”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛk.toʊ/

recto (plural rectos)

1. The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
2. (printing) The right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number.
3. (law) A writ of right.

• (front side of a flat object): front

• (front side of a flat object): verso, flipside
• (right-hand page of a book): reverso

• recto-

• Corte, Ector

rēctō

1. dative masculine singular of rēctus
2. dative neuter singular of rēctus
3. ablative masculine singular of rēctus
4. ablative neuter singular of rēctus

• recto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• recto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

recto m (feminine singular recta, masculine plural rectos, feminine plural rectas, comparable) (European orthography)

1. Alternative form of reto

recto m (plural rectos) (European orthography)

1. Alternative form of reto

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

recto (feminine singular recta, masculine plural rectos, feminine plural rectas)

1. straight (of a line, pipe, street, etc, never about sexuality.)
2. honest, honorable, upright, righteous, just, fair
3. literal (of a meaning)
4. (geometry) right (of an angle, etc)

• ángulo recto

• recta
• directo
• rectitud
• correcto

Borrowed from Latin rectum (intestinum).

recto m (plural rectos)

1. (anatomy) rectum
2. (anatomy) rectus

• rectal