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Latin: ōrātiō (“speech”) + rēcta (feminine nominative singular form of rēctus, “straight”, “direct”, “honest”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Latin: ōrātiō (“speech”) + rēcta (feminine nominative singular form of rēctus, “straight”, “direct”, “honest”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.