rectus

From the Latin phrase "(musculus) rectus", or "a straight (muscle)".

rectus (plural recti)

1. (anatomy) Any of several straight muscles in various parts of the body, as of the abdomen, thigh, eye etc.

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

Perfect passive participle of regō (“rule”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreːk.tus/, [ˈreːk.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrek.tus/

rēctus m (feminine rēcta, neuter rēctum); first/second declension

1. ruled, having been ruled, governed, having been governed
2. guided, having been guided, steered, having been steered
3. straight
4. right
5. proper, honest

First/second declension.

• Catalan: recte
• English: recta, rectus, recto
• Friulian: ret
• Italian: retto, ritto
• Old Portuguese: reyto
• Portuguese: reto
• Spanish: recto

• 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, 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