directus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“lay straight; direct; distribute”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diːˈrek.tus/, [diːˈrɛk.tʊs]
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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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | dīrectus | dīrecta | dīrectum | dīrectī | dīrectae | dīrecta | |
| genitive | dīrectī | dīrectae | dīrectī | dīrectōrum | dīrectārum | dīrectōrum | |
| dative | dīrectō | dīrectō | dīrectīs | ||||
| accusative | dīrectum | dīrectam | dīrectum | dīrectōs | dīrectās | dīrecta | |
| ablative | dīrectō | dīrectā | dīrectō | dīrectīs | |||
| vocative | dīrecte | dīrecta | dīrectum | dīrectī | dīrectae | dīrecta | |
Descendants
- Albanian: drejtë (ancient borrowing)
- Aromanian: ãndreptu, ndreptu, dreptu
- Asturian: derechu, directu (borrowing)
- Catalan: dret, direct (borrowing)
- Dalmatian: drat
- English: direct (borrowing)
- French: droit, direct (borrowing)
- Friulian: dret, diret (borrowing)
- German: direkt (borrowing)
- Irish: díreach (ancient borrowing)
- Italian: diritto, dritto, diretto (borrowing)
- Ladin: dërt, diret (borrowing)
- Manx: jeeragh (borrowing)
- Megleno-Romanian: dirept
- Norman: drouait, drait, direct (borrowing)
- Occitan: drech, drèit, dret, directe (borrowing)
- Old Irish: díriuch (borrowing)
- Old Portuguese: direito
- Portuguese: direito, direto (borrowing)
- Romanian: drept, direct (borrowing)
- Romansch: dretg, dret
- Sardinian: daretu, deretu, diritu, dritu
- Scots Gaelic: dìreach (ancient borrowing)
- Sicilian: drittu, dirittu
- Spanish: derecho, directo (borrowing)
- Venetian: dirito
- Walloon: droet
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
- in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum
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