directus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • From Proto-Italic *dwizrektos, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“lay straight; direct; distribute”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    dīrēctus (feminine dīrēcta, neuter dīrēctum); first/second-declension participle

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

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative dīrēctus dīrēcta dīrēctum dīrēctī dīrēctae dīrēcta
    genitive dīrēctī dīrēctae dīrēctī dīrēctōrum dīrēctārum dīrēctōrum
    dative dīrēctō dīrēctae dīrēctō dīrēctīs
    accusative dīrēctum dīrēctam dīrēctum dīrēctōs dīrēctās dīrēcta
    ablative dīrēctō dīrēctā dīrēctō dīrēctīs
    vocative dīrēcte dīrēcta dīrēctum dīrēctī dīrēctae dīrēcta

    Descendants

    Inherited:

    • Italian: diritto
    • Sardinian: diritu
    • Sicilian: dirittu
    • Venetan: dirito
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dērēctus (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *dīrēctiāre (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Late Latin: drictus (see there for further descendants)

    Borrowed:

    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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “directus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum
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