retto
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin rēctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“straightened, right”).
Adjective
retto (feminine retta, masculine plural retti, feminine plural rette)
- (obsolete, literally) straight
- (archaic, figurative) honest, upright
- (archaic, figurative) righteous
- (geometry) right (of an angle); straight (of a line)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIII, p. 236, vv. 100-102:
- «[...] non si est dare primum motum esse, ¶ o se del mezzo cerchio far si puote ¶ trïangol sì ch'un retto non avesse. [...]»
- «[...] not [to know] if the being of a prime mover is acknowledgeable, ¶ or if in semicircle can be made ¶ triangle so that it have no right [angle]. [...]»
- (anatomy) rectus
- (grammar) direct (of a case)
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Participle
retto (feminine retta, masculine plural retti, feminine plural rette)
Etymology 2
Ellipsis of intestino retto, from Latin rēctum intestīnum (literally “straight intestine”).
Noun
retto m (plural retti) (anatomy)
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