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- Latin · borrowed fromrēctō
- English todayrecto
Borrowed from Latin rēctō foliō (“on the right leaf, on the right page”), the ablative case of the Latin rēctus (“right”). Compare versus (“turned”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
recto
Today it means: The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal. Full definition →
Latin rēctō