adverb
rēctā
rēctā (not comparable)
Classical[ˈreːk.taː]Ecclesiastical[ˈrɛk.ta]
Meaning
- not comparabledirectly, straightforward, straightway, right on
rectā and rectē,
I. advv., v. rego, P. a. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
rēctā adv.
abl f. of rectus; sc. viā, straightway, straightforward, right on, directly . Tu rus hinc ibis? . . . rectā, T.: ab subselliis in rostra rectā: perge in exsilium: Tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum, H.
Origins
Clipping of rēctā viā, an ablativus prosecutivus.