casus rectus
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin cāsus rēctus (literally “straight case”).
Noun
[edit]casus rectus (plural casus recti)
- (grammar, dated) The nominative case, sometimes grouped with the vocative case, as a single morphological case contrasted with the oblique case.
- Synonym: direct case