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- Latin · learned borrowing fromcāsus rēctus
- English todaycasus rectus
Learned borrowing from Latin cāsus rēctus (literally “straight case”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
casus rectus
Today it means: The nominative case, sometimes grouped with the vocative case, as a single morphological case contrasted with the oblique case. Full definition →
Latin cāsus rēctus