directe

Borrowed from Latin dīrectus. Doublet of dret, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈɾɛk.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [diˈɾɛk.te]

directe (feminine directa, masculine and feminine plural directes)

1. direct (proceeding without deviation or interruption)

   Antonym: indirecte

2. direct (straight; not crooked)
3. direct (straightforward; sincere)

   Antonym: indirecte

directe

1. directly; straight to, right to

   Synonym: directament

   • 2011, Joan Torró Soriano, Pluja a la mar: El somni impossible d'Alessandro Malaspina, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 142:

     Tot va anar bé, fins i tot Montbou se'n va anar directe a descansar.

     Everything went well; Montbou even went straight to rest.

directe m (plural directes)

1. (boxing) cross (a hook thrown over the opponent's punch)

• “directe” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /di.ʁɛkt/

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• Homophone: directes

directe

1. feminine singular of direct

• crédite, crédité, décrite

directe (comparative plus directe, superlative le plus directe)

1. direct, straight

• dērēcte

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈreːk.te/, [d̪iːˈreːkt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈrek.te/, [d̪iˈrɛkt̪e]

dīrēcte

1. vocative masculine singular of dīrēctus

• dērēctē

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈreːk.teː/, [d̪iːˈreːkt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈrek.te/, [d̪iˈrɛkt̪e]

dīrēctē (comparative dīrēctius, superlative dīrēctissimē)

1. straight, not curved
2. moving straight forward, in straight line
3. direct, absolute

• “directe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “directe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• directe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• directe - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary

directe

1. feminine singular of direct