recte

R1E1C3T1E1

adverb

Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)

OriginLatin recte →
Scrabble 7
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Meanings

adverbrecte (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUsed parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)

    ELECTION OF GRAND COUNCIL [ recte COMMITTEE ]

    1972 T. P. O'Neill (ed.) Private Sessions of Second Dáil (Dublin) 26 August 1921
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    The Seignory of Castleton, containing 200 (sic, query recte 12,000) acres

    1924 December 31, Robert Dunlop and Geo. O'Brien, "An Unpublished Survey of the Plantation of Munster in 1622", The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Sixth Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 p.132

    Here is a list of errors not observed by the corrector. 193: and (recte 'as') 735: a quartere (add 'ȝеге') 796: noblel (recte 'noble' or 'nobel') 1527: him (recte 'hem') 2455: holid (? recte 'helid')

    1974 Edmund Colledge THE CAPGRAVE 'AUTOGRAPHS', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, p.142

Origin

  1. Latinrecte“rightly, correctly”
  2. Englishrecte

From Latin recte (“rightly, correctly”).

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Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

“recte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recte. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recte.

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