English

Adverb

recte

1. Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
   • 1972 T. P. O'Neill (ed.) Private Sessions of Second Dáil (Dublin) 26 August 1921

     ELECTION OF GRAND COUNCIL [ recte COMMITTEE ]

   • 1974 Edmund Colledge THE CAPGRAVE 'AUTOGRAPHS', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, p.142:

     Here is a list of errors not observed by the corrector.

     193: and (recte 'as')

     735: a quartere (add 'ȝеге')

     796: noblel (recte 'noble' or 'nobel')

     1527: him (recte 'hem')

     2455: holid (? recte 'helid')

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

recte m ‎(feminine recta, masculine and feminine plural rectes)

1. straight

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin rectum.

Noun

recte m ‎(plural rectes)

1. rectum

Latin

Adverb

rēctē

1. rightly, correctly

Participle

rēcte

1. vocative masculine singular of rēctus

References

• recte in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “recte”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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