rhectae
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ῥῆκται (rhêktai), the plural form of ῥήκτης (rhḗktēs, “breaker, render”), from the verb ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnumi, “break, rend”) and the suffix -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈreːk.tae̯/, [ˈreːkt̪äe̯]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrek.te/, [ˈrɛkt̪e]
Noun
[edit]rhēctae m pl (genitive rhēctārum); first declension (plural only)
- A kind of earthquake
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | rhēctae |
| genitive | rhēctārum |
| dative | rhēctīs |
| accusative | rhēctās |
| ablative | rhēctīs |
| vocative | rhēctae |
References
[edit]- “rhectae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rhectae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.