rechten

Germanic, from recht (“(what is) right, justice, law”), cognate with German Recht, also from the adjective recht (“right, straight”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “aren’t that 2 etymologies? Transform pedia quote below to etymology.”)

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• Rhymes: -ɛxtən

rechten

1. To seek justice, notably:
   1. To sue judicially
   2. To contend by argument etc.
2. To straighten
3. To erect, raise

• (seek justice): recht zoeken
• (seek justice, judicial only): procederen
• (straighten): rechtmaken, rechttrekken (both cognate)
• (erect): oprichten (cognate)

rechten

1. plural of recht
2. (academic subject, colloquial) law

   De uitdrukking ‘rechten’ stamt uit het universitair onderwijs in de middeleeuwen toen men aan de juridische faculteiten zowel wereldlijk (vooral Romeins) recht als het canoniek recht kon studeren. ^{Rechtsgeleerdheid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia}

   The appellation ‘laws’ derives from the university-level education in the middle ages, when at the law colleges one could study secular (mainly Roman) law as well as canon law.

• (academic subject): rechtsgeleerdheid

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• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛçtən/, [ˈʁɛçtn̩]
• Hyphenation: rech‧ten

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From Middle High German rehten, from Old High German rehton.

rechten (weak, third-person singular present rechtet, past tense rechtete, past participle gerechtet, auxiliary haben)

1. (formal) to argue
   • 1970, Hannah Arendt: Macht und Gewalt. 25th edition. München/Berlin/Zürich: Piper, published 2015, →ISBN, page 80:
     Translation:
     1970, Hannah Arendt: On Violence. Orlando/Austin/New York/San Diego/London: A Harvest Book Harcourt, Inc., page 81:

     Denn in einer vollentwickelten Bürokratie gibt es, wenn man Verantwortung verlangt oder auch Reformen, nur den Niemand. Und mit dem Niemand kann man nicht rechten, ihn kann man nicht beeinflussen oder überzeugen, auf ihn keinen Druck der Macht ausüben.

     In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted.

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rechten

1. inflection of rechen:
   1. first/third-person plural preterite
   2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II

rechten

1. inflection of recht:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural