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recte

recte adverb: used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it).

Adverb

recte (not comparable)

  1. Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
    • The Seignory of Castleton, containing 200 (sic, query recte 12,000) acres1924 December 31, Robert Dunlop and Geo. O'Brien, "An Unpublished Survey of the Plantation of Munster in 1622", The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Sixth Series, Vol. 14, No....
    • ELECTION OF GRAND COUNCIL [ recte COMMITTEE ]1972 T. P. O'Neill (ed.) Private Sessions of Second Dáil (Dublin) 26 August 1921

Origin of recte

From Latin recte (“rightly, correctly”).

Questions about recte

What does recte mean?
Recte means used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it).
What part of speech is recte?
Recte is an adverb.

Words near recte in the dictionary

  1. rectangularwise
  2. rectangulation
  3. rectanguloid
  4. rectanguloids
  5. Rectanus
  6. recte
  7. rectectomies
  8. rectectomy
  9. rectenna
  10. rectennae
  11. rectennas

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