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recte

recte is a Latin form of rectus, meaning “straight; right, proper”. It is the adverb.

Found 944 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.6.4: si ipse ad exercitum contenderet, ne eis quidem eo tempore qui quieti viderentur suam salutem recte committi videbat.

Cicero, De Republica 1.54: Tum Laelius: Quid tu, inquit, Scipio? e tribus istis quod maxime probas? Recte quaeris, quod maxime e tribus, quoniam eorum nullum ipsum per se separatim probo anteponoque singulis illud, …

Plautus, Bacchides 2.2.188b: Nempe recté valet?

All forms of rectus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.