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101 wrong

adj. haksız, yanlış, hatalı, uygunsuz, ters, bozuk
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adv. yanlış, ters, ters olarak
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n. haksızlık, hata, suç, yanlış yol
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v. haksızlık etmek, günahına girmek, eziyet etmek

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[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) yanlış

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) yanlış, hatalı

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) yanlış, kötü

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) uygun değil

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) yolunda gitmeyen, bozuk
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) yanlış biçimde/olarak
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) yanlış, kötülük, günah
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) haksızlık etmek, günahına girmek

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong

English-Turkish dictionary > wrong
102 moral

['morəl] 1. adjective
(of, or relating to, character or behaviour especially right behaviour: high moral standards; He leads a very moral (= good) life.) moralen
2. noun
(the lesson to be learned from something that happens, or from a story: The moral of this story is that crime doesn't pay.) nauk

- morally
- morality
- morals
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I [mɔrəl]
adjective ( morally adverb)

moralen, nraven; duhoven, notranji; spodoben, čednosten, kreposten

moral certainty — velika verjetnost

moral courage — moralna moč

moral faculty, moral sense — čut za spodobnost

moral philosophy (science) — etika

moral law — moralni zakon

moral support — moralna opora

a moral life — čednostno življenje

moral hazard — subjektivno tveganje

psychology moral insanity — moralna defektnost
II [mɜrəl]
noun

nauk (zgodbe); plural morala, nravnost, etika; slang natančna podoba

code of morals — nravstveni zakonik

to draw the moral from — povzeti nauk iz česa

to point the moral — povdariti moralni vidik

colloquially the very moral of — prav tak

English-Slovenian dictionary > moral
103 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) napačen

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) motiti se

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) narobe

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) napačen

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) narobe
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) napačno
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) kar je narobe
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) biti krivičen

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong
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I [rɔŋ]
noun

krivica; zmota, zabloda, napačnost, greh; (redko) škoda, žalitev; juridically prestopek, prekršek, pregrešek, delikt, nedovoljeno dejanje

public wrong — javen delikt, kaznivo dejanje

private wrong — kršenje zasebnega prava

to commit a wrong — zagrešiti (zakriviti, narediti) krivico

to be in the wrong — biti v zmoti, ne imeti prav

to do wrong — napak, ne prav delati, grešiti

to do s.o. wrong, to do wrong to s.o. — delati (narediti) komu krivico

to know the right from the wrong — razlikovati pravico od krivice

to make wrong right — popraviti krivico, spremeniti slabo v dobro

to put s.o. in the wrong — dokazati komu, da nima prav

to right a wrong — popraviti krivico

to suffer wrong — trpeti krivico
II [rɔŋ]
adjective

zmoten, nepravi, pogrešen, napačen, naroben; ki ni v redu, ki je v neredu; neprimeren, nepripraven; nekoristen, neugoden

wrong act — prekršek

a wrong answer — napačen, nepravi odgovor

the wrong side — narobna stran ( of material — blaga)

wrong one, slang wrong'un — (kriket) žoga, ki leti čisto drugače, kot je igralec pričakoval

(the) wrong side out — na ven (narobe) obrnjena notranja stran (oblačila)

the wrong side of the blanket figuratively nezakonit

to be wrong — ne imeti prav

the clock is wrong — ura ne gre prav

you are wrong in believing that — nimaš prav (motiš se), če to verjameš

not to be far wrong — ne se zelo (z)motiti

I was not far wrong in guessing — skoraj sem uganil

something is wrong with him — nekaj je narobe z njim

what's wrong with you? — kaj pa je (narobe) s teboj?

to be in the wrong box figuratively biti v škripcih (v nerodnem položaju, v zagati); ne biti na mestu; biti na zgubi

it is the wrong side out — to je narobe, obrnjeno

to be on the wrong side of 50 — biti nad 50 let star

what's wrong with a cup of tea? colloquially kako bi bilo s skodelico čaja?

to do the wrong thing in the wrong place — ravno narobe (napačno) kaj napraviti

what do you find wrong with it? — kaj se ti zdi pri tem narobe (ti ni pri tem všeč)?

to get (to have) hold of the wrong end of the stick figuratively (popolnoma) napačno razumeti (imeti čisto napačno mnenje, vtis)

to get out of the bed (on) the wrong side figuratively colloquially z levo nogo vstati; biti slabe volje

he will laugh on the wrong side of his mouth figuratively smeh ga bo že minil

to prove s.o. wrong — dokazati komu, da nima prav

to go wrong — zaiti; spodleteti, ne iti (biti) v redu

he holds the book the wrong way — narobe drži knjigo

he found himself in the wrong shop figuratively colloquially ni na pravega naletel

it is very wrong of you to support him — zelo napak je od vas, da ga podpirate

to take the wrong train — peljati se z napačnim vlakom

to take the wrong turning ( —ali path) — figuratively zaiti na kriva pota
III [rɔŋ]
adverb

neprav, nápak, narobe, pogrešno, lažno

to act wrong — ne delati prav, napačno delati

to get it wrong — (z)motiti se, napačno razumeti

to get in wrong with s.o. American colloquially lahkomiselno izgubiti (zaigrati) naklonjenost kake osebe

to go wrong — iti s prave poti, zaiti na kriva pota (o ženski); pogrešiti, zmotiti se; commerce slabo iti; technical slabo funkcionirati, biti pokvarjen

to get s.o. in wrong with — spraviti koga ob dobro ime pri, diskreditirati koga pri

our plans went wrong — naši načrti so šli po vodi

your watch is wrong — vaša ura ne gre prav (točno)

to guess wrong — napak uganiti, krivo zadeti
IV [rɔŋ]
transitive verb

biti krivičen (s.o. — do koga), krivično ravnati (z), delati krivico (komu), škoditi, prizadeti škodo (komu), prevarati (s.o. of s.th. — koga za kaj); zapeljati (žensko); nautical odvzeti veter (ladji)

I was deeply wronged — storjena (prizadejana) mi je bila velika krivica

he is wronged — dela se mu krivica

English-Slovenian dictionary > wrong
104 wrong

• nurja

• tuomita väärin

• hullusti

• virheellisesti

• virheellinen

• väärin

• vääryydellinen

• vääryys

• väärä

• väärinpäin

• tehdä vääryyttä

• kielletty

• harhassa

• harhaan

• hairahdus

• takaperoinen

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roŋ 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) väärä

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) väärässä

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) väärin

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) väärä

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) vialla
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) väärin
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) vääryys
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) loukata

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong

English-Finnish dictionary > wrong
105 harangue

I [hə'ræŋ]
nome (political) arringa f.; (moral) paternale f.
II [hə'ræŋ]
verbo transitivo ( forma in -ing haranguing) (politically) arringare; (morally) fare la paternale a

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[hə'ræŋ] 1. noun
(a long loud speech: a harangue from the headmaster on good behaviour.) arringa
2. verb
(to give a harangue to.) arringare

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harangue /həˈræŋ/
n.

arringa; tirata; sproloquio; invettiva; filippica.
(to) harangue /həˈræŋ/
A v. t.

arringare ( la folla, ecc.)

B v. i.

fare un'arringa.

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I [hə'ræŋ]
nome (political) arringa f.; (moral) paternale f.
II [hə'ræŋ]
verbo transitivo ( forma in -ing haranguing) (politically) arringare; (morally) fare la paternale a

English-Italian dictionary > harangue
106 above

I 1. [ə'bʌv]
preposizione

1) (vertically higher) sopra, al di sopra di

to live above a shop — abitare sopra un negozio

your name is above mine on the list — il tuo nome è prima del mio nell'elenco

the hills above Monte Carlo — le colline sopra Monte Carlo

2) (north of)

above this latitude — oltre questa latitudine

3) (upstream of) a monte di

4) (morally)

she's above such petty behaviour — è al di sopra di un comportamento così meschino

they're not above cheating — non disdegnano di imbrogliare

5) (in preference to) più di

above all — soprattutto, più di tutto

above all else — più di tutto il resto o di ogni altra cosa

6) (superior in status, rank) superiore a, al di sopra di

he thinks he's above us — si crede superiore a noi

7) (greater than) al di sopra di, oltre

above average — al di sopra della media

above the limit — oltre il limite

to rise above — superare [limit, average]

8) (beyond)

above suspicion — al di sopra di ogni sospetto

9) (higher in pitch) più alto di

10) (over)

a shot was heard above the shouting — uno sparo sovrastò il grido
2.
avverbio

1) (higher up)

the apartment above — l'appartamento di sopra

the view from above — la vista dall'alto

2) (earlier in the text)

see above — vedi sopra

3) (more)

children of 12 and above — bambini di 12 anni e oltre

4) (in the sky)

look up at the stars above — guarda le stelle lassù (nel cielo)

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to get above oneself — montarsi la testa
II 1. [ə'bʌv]
aggettivo

the above items — gli oggetti sunnominati o di cui sopra
2.
pronome

the above are all witnesses — i suddetti sono tutti testimoni

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1. preposition
1) (in a higher position than: a picture above the fireplace.) sopra, al di sopra di

2) (greater than: The child's intelligence is above average.) superiore

3) (too good for: The police must be above suspicion.) al di sopra di
2. adverb
1) (higher up: seen from above.) sopra

2) ((in a book etc) earlier or higher up on the page: See above.) sopra

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- above-board
- above all
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I 1. [ə'bʌv]
preposizione

1) (vertically higher) sopra, al di sopra di

to live above a shop — abitare sopra un negozio

your name is above mine on the list — il tuo nome è prima del mio nell'elenco

the hills above Monte Carlo — le colline sopra Monte Carlo

2) (north of)

above this latitude — oltre questa latitudine

3) (upstream of) a monte di

4) (morally)

she's above such petty behaviour — è al di sopra di un comportamento così meschino

they're not above cheating — non disdegnano di imbrogliare

5) (in preference to) più di

above all — soprattutto, più di tutto

above all else — più di tutto il resto o di ogni altra cosa

6) (superior in status, rank) superiore a, al di sopra di

he thinks he's above us — si crede superiore a noi

7) (greater than) al di sopra di, oltre

above average — al di sopra della media

above the limit — oltre il limite

to rise above — superare [limit, average]

8) (beyond)

above suspicion — al di sopra di ogni sospetto

9) (higher in pitch) più alto di

10) (over)

a shot was heard above the shouting — uno sparo sovrastò il grido
2.
avverbio

1) (higher up)

the apartment above — l'appartamento di sopra

the view from above — la vista dall'alto

2) (earlier in the text)

see above — vedi sopra

3) (more)

children of 12 and above — bambini di 12 anni e oltre

4) (in the sky)

look up at the stars above — guarda le stelle lassù (nel cielo)

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to get above oneself — montarsi la testa
II 1. [ə'bʌv]
aggettivo

the above items — gli oggetti sunnominati o di cui sopra
2.
pronome

the above are all witnesses — i suddetti sono tutti testimoni

English-Italian dictionary > above
107 wrong

I [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
aggettivo

1) (incorrect) (ill-chosen) sbagliato; (containing errors) sbagliato, errato, inesatto

it's the wrong glue for the purpose — non è la colla adatta

to take the wrong road — sbagliare strada, imboccare la strada sbagliata

to give the wrong answer — sbagliare risposta, dare la risposta sbagliata

everything I do is wrong — tutto ciò che faccio è sbagliato

it was the wrong thing to say — era la cosa da non dire

to say the wrong thing — fare una gaffe

don't get the wrong idea — non farti un'idea sbagliata

you've got the wrong number — (on phone) ha sbagliato numero

2) (reprehensible, unjust)

it is wrong to do — è sbagliato fare

she hasn't done anything wrong — non ha fatto niente di sbagliato o di male

it was wrong of me to do — ho sbagliato a fare

it is wrong for sb. to do — non è giusto che qcn. faccia

it is wrong that — non è giusto che

there's nothing wrong with o in sth. non c'è niente di sbagliato o di male in qcs.; what's wrong with trying? che male c'è a provare? che c'è di male nel provare? (so) what's wrong with that? — cosa c'è di sbagliato o di male?

3) (mistaken)

to be wrong — [ person] avere torto, sbagliarsi

how wrong can you be! — quanto ci si può sbagliare!

I might be wrong — potrei sbagliarmi, posso anche sbagliarmi

to be wrong about — sbagliarsi su [person, situation, details]

am I wrong in thinking that...? — ho torto a pensare che...? sbaglio se penso che...?

4) (not as it should be)

there is something (badly) wrong — c'è qualcosa che non va (affatto)

there's something wrong with this computer — questo computer ha qualcosa che non va

what's wrong with your arm? — che cos'hai al braccio?

what's wrong with you? — (to person suffering) che cos'hai? che cosa c'è che non va? (to person behaving oddly) che ti prende? che ti succede?

nothing wrong is there? — va tutto bene?

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to be wrong in the head — colloq. avere qualche rotella in meno

to get into the wrong hands — finire in mani sbagliate

to get on the wrong side of sb. — inimicarsi qcn.

to go down the wrong way — [food, drink] andare di traverso
II [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
avverbio

to get [sth.] wrong — sbagliarsi con, capire male, fraintendere [date, time, details]; sbagliare [ calculations]

I think you've got it wrong — penso che ti sbagli

to go wrong — [ person] finire su una brutta strada; [ machine] guastarsi, incepparsi; [ plan] fallire, andare male, andare a rotoli

you won't go far wrong if... — non sbagli di molto se...

you can't go wrong — (in choice of route) non ti puoi sbagliare; (are bound to succeed) non puoi non farcela

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you've got me all wrong — mi hai completamente frainteso
III [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
nome

1) U (evil)

he could do no wrong — era incapace di fare del male

2) (injustice) torto m., ingiustizia f.

to right a wrong — riparare un torto

3) dir. illecito m.

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to be in the wrong — essere dalla parte del torto, avere torto

two wrongs don't make a right — due torti non fanno una ragione
IV [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
verbo transitivo fare torto a, trattare ingiustamente, offendere [person, family]

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[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) sbagliato

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) (che sbaglia)

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) sbagliato

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) sbagliato

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) (che non va)
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) male
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) male
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) offendere, fare torto

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong
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I [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
aggettivo

1) (incorrect) (ill-chosen) sbagliato; (containing errors) sbagliato, errato, inesatto

it's the wrong glue for the purpose — non è la colla adatta

to take the wrong road — sbagliare strada, imboccare la strada sbagliata

to give the wrong answer — sbagliare risposta, dare la risposta sbagliata

everything I do is wrong — tutto ciò che faccio è sbagliato

it was the wrong thing to say — era la cosa da non dire

to say the wrong thing — fare una gaffe

don't get the wrong idea — non farti un'idea sbagliata

you've got the wrong number — (on phone) ha sbagliato numero

2) (reprehensible, unjust)

it is wrong to do — è sbagliato fare

she hasn't done anything wrong — non ha fatto niente di sbagliato o di male

it was wrong of me to do — ho sbagliato a fare

it is wrong for sb. to do — non è giusto che qcn. faccia

it is wrong that — non è giusto che

there's nothing wrong with o in sth. non c'è niente di sbagliato o di male in qcs.; what's wrong with trying? che male c'è a provare? che c'è di male nel provare? (so) what's wrong with that? — cosa c'è di sbagliato o di male?

3) (mistaken)

to be wrong — [ person] avere torto, sbagliarsi

how wrong can you be! — quanto ci si può sbagliare!

I might be wrong — potrei sbagliarmi, posso anche sbagliarmi

to be wrong about — sbagliarsi su [person, situation, details]

am I wrong in thinking that...? — ho torto a pensare che...? sbaglio se penso che...?

4) (not as it should be)

there is something (badly) wrong — c'è qualcosa che non va (affatto)

there's something wrong with this computer — questo computer ha qualcosa che non va

what's wrong with your arm? — che cos'hai al braccio?

what's wrong with you? — (to person suffering) che cos'hai? che cosa c'è che non va? (to person behaving oddly) che ti prende? che ti succede?

nothing wrong is there? — va tutto bene?

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to be wrong in the head — colloq. avere qualche rotella in meno

to get into the wrong hands — finire in mani sbagliate

to get on the wrong side of sb. — inimicarsi qcn.

to go down the wrong way — [food, drink] andare di traverso
II [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
avverbio

to get [sth.] wrong — sbagliarsi con, capire male, fraintendere [date, time, details]; sbagliare [ calculations]

I think you've got it wrong — penso che ti sbagli

to go wrong — [ person] finire su una brutta strada; [ machine] guastarsi, incepparsi; [ plan] fallire, andare male, andare a rotoli

you won't go far wrong if... — non sbagli di molto se...

you can't go wrong — (in choice of route) non ti puoi sbagliare; (are bound to succeed) non puoi non farcela

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you've got me all wrong — mi hai completamente frainteso
III [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
nome

1) U (evil)

he could do no wrong — era incapace di fare del male

2) (injustice) torto m., ingiustizia f.

to right a wrong — riparare un torto

3) dir. illecito m.

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to be in the wrong — essere dalla parte del torto, avere torto

two wrongs don't make a right — due torti non fanno una ragione
IV [rɒŋ] [AE rɔːŋ]
verbo transitivo fare torto a, trattare ingiustamente, offendere [person, family]

English-Italian dictionary > wrong
108 worse

1. adjective compar. of
academic.ru/5024/bad">bad 1. schlechter; schlimmer [Schmerz, Krankheit, Benehmen]

things could not/could be worse — es kann nicht mehr schlimmer kommen/es könnte schlimmer sein

the food is bad, and the service worse — das Essen ist schlecht und die Bedienung noch schlechter

he's getting worse — mit ihm wird es schlimmer; (his health) ihm geht es schlechter

be worse than useless — [Sache:] mehr als unbrauchbar sein; [Person:] ein hoffnungsloser Fall sein

somebody is [none] the worse for something — jemandem geht es wegen etwas [nicht] schlechter

worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer

to make matters worse,... — zu allem Übel...

it could have been worse — es hätte schlimmer sein od. kommen können

worse luck! — so ein Pech!; see also drink 1. 3); wear 1. 1)
2. adverb compar. of
badly schlechter; schlimmer, schlechter [sich benehmen]

worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer; see also better 3. 1); off 1. 7)
3. noun
Schlimmeres

she might do worse than settle for that job — es wäre bestimmt kein Fehler, wenn sie sich für die Stelle entschiede

go from bad to worse — immer schlimmer werden

or worse — oder noch Schlimmeres

worse still — schlimmer noch

a change for the worse — eine Wende zum Schlechteren

take a turn for the worse — sich verschlechtern; [Krankheit:] sich verschlimmern

nobody will think any the worse of you — niemand wird deswegen schlechter von dir denken

there is worse to come — es kommt noch schlimmer; see also worst 3. 1)

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((of things or people) to become better or worse: His fortunes have taken a turn for the better; Her health has taken a turn for the worse.) sich verbessern,...schlimmern

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worse

[wɜ:s, AM wɜ:rs]

I. adj inv comp of bad

1. (not as good) schlechter; (more difficult, unpleasant) schlimmer, ärger

stop, I can't take any \worse! hör auf, ich kann nicht noch mehr ertragen!

\worse luck! ( fam) so ein Pech [o fam Mist]!

that only makes matters \worse das macht alles nur noch schlimmer

and to make matters \worse... und was alles noch schlimmer macht,...

it could have been [or come] \worse es hätte schlimmer sein [o kommen] können

▪ to be \worse than... schlechter/schlimmer sein als...

2. MED (sicker) schlechter, schlimmer

he's [got] \worse es geht ihm schlechter

my cold seems to be getting \worse meine Erkältung scheint schlimmer zu werden [o sich zu verschlimmern

3.

▶ [a bit] the \worse for drink ( dated fam) beschwipst

▶ to be [all] the \worse for sb für jdn schlimme Folgen haben

▶ \worse things have happened at sea! es gibt Schlimmeres!

▶ so much the \worse for sb um so schlimmer für jdn

▶ sb is none the \worse for sth jdm tut es um etw akk nicht leid

you would be none the \worse for some basic manners, young man! etwas Benehmen würde Ihnen nicht schaden, junger Mann!

▶ [a bit] the \worse for wear ( fam) [ziemlich] mitgenommen, abgenutzt, abgenützt SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR

II. adv inv comp of badly

1. (less well) schlechter; (more seriously) schlimmer

he did \worse than he was expecting in the exams er schnitt beim Examen schlechter als erwartet ab

you could do a lot \worse than marry her dir kann doch gar nichts Besseres passieren, als sie zu heiraten

▪ to be \worse off [than...] schlechter dran sein [als...]

to get \worse and \worse immer schlechter werden, sich akk immer mehr verschlechtern

2. (to introduce statement)

even \worse,... was noch schlimmer ist,...

III. n no pl

1. (condition)

▪ the \worse das Schlechtere

to change for the \worse schlechter werden, sich akk verschlechtern [o verschlimmern], sich akk zum Schlechten verändern

2. (circumstance) Schlimmeres nt

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[wɜːs]
1. adj comp
schlechter; (morally, with bad consequences) schlimmer, ärger
it gets worse and worse —

the patient is worse than he was yesterday — dem Patienten geht es schlechter als gestern

the patient is getting worse — der Zustand des Patienten verschlechtert sich or wird schlechter

and to make matters worse — und zu allem Übel

his "corrections" only made it worse — er hat alles nur verschlimmbessert

it could have been worse — es hätte schlimmer kommen können

worse luck! — (so ein) Pech!

it will be the worse for you — das wird für dich unangenehme Folgen haben

so much the worse for him — umso schlimmer

to be the worse for drink — betrunken sein

he's none the worse for it — er hat sich nichts dabei getan, es ist ihm nichts dabei passiert

you'll be none the worse for some work — etwas Arbeit wird dir nicht schaden

I don't think any the worse of you for it — ich halte deswegen aber nicht weniger von dir

worse things happen at sea (inf) — es könnte schlimmer sein

2. adv comp
schlechter
it hurts worse — es tut mehr weh

to be worse off than... — schlechter dran sein als... (inf), in einer schlechteren Lage sein als...

I could do a lot worse than accept their offer — es wäre bestimmt kein Fehler, wenn ich das Angebot annähme

3. n
Schlechtere(s) nt; (morally, with regard to consequences) Schlimmere(s) nt
there is worse to come — es kommt noch schlimmer

it's changed for the worse — es hat sich zum Schlechteren gewendet

* * *

worse [wɜːs; US wɜrs]

A adj (komp von bad¹, evil, ill)

1. schlechter, schlimmer ( beide auch MED), übler, ärger:

worse and worse immer schlechter oder schlimmer;

the worse desto schlimmer;

so much ( oder all) the worse umso schlimmer;

that only made matters worse das machte es nur noch schlimmer;

make it worse (Redew) um das Unglück vollzumachen;

he is worse than yesterday es geht ihm schlechter als gestern;

worse still was noch schlimmer ist; → luck A 1, wear¹ C 3

2. schlechter gestellt:

(not) be the worse for (nicht) schlecht wegkommen bei, (keinen) Schaden erlitten haben durch, (nicht) schlechter gestellt sein wegen;

he is none the worse for it es ist ihm dabei nichts passiert;

you would be none the worse for a walk ein Spaziergang würde dir gar nichts schaden;

be the worse for drink betrunken sein

B adv schlechter, schlimmer, ärger:

none the worse nicht schlechter;

be worse off schlechter daran sein;

you could do worse than get a haircut du könntest dir ruhig mal die Haare schneiden lassen

C s Schlechteres n, Schlimmeres n:

worse followed Schlimmeres folgte;

if worse comes to worse schlimmstenfalls;

have ( oder get) the worse den Kürzer(e)n ziehen, schlechter wegkommen; → bad¹ B 1, better¹ B 1, change B 1, C 1 turn¹ A 8 b

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1. adjective compar. of
bad 1. schlechter; schlimmer [Schmerz, Krankheit, Benehmen]

things could not/could be worse — es kann nicht mehr schlimmer kommen/es könnte schlimmer sein

the food is bad, and the service worse — das Essen ist schlecht und die Bedienung noch schlechter

he's getting worse — mit ihm wird es schlimmer; (his health) ihm geht es schlechter

be worse than useless — [Sache:] mehr als unbrauchbar sein; [Person:] ein hoffnungsloser Fall sein

somebody is [none] the worse for something — jemandem geht es wegen etwas [nicht] schlechter

worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer

to make matters worse,... — zu allem Übel...

it could have been worse — es hätte schlimmer sein od. kommen können

worse luck! — so ein Pech!; see also drink 1. 3); wear 1. 1)
2. adverb compar. of
badly schlechter; schlimmer, schlechter [sich benehmen]

worse and worse — immer schlechter/schlimmer; see also better 3. 1); off 1. 7)
3. noun
Schlimmeres

she might do worse than settle for that job — es wäre bestimmt kein Fehler, wenn sie sich für die Stelle entschiede

go from bad to worse — immer schlimmer werden

or worse — oder noch Schlimmeres

worse still — schlimmer noch

a change for the worse — eine Wende zum Schlechteren

take a turn for the worse — sich verschlechtern; [Krankheit:] sich verschlimmern

nobody will think any the worse of you — niemand wird deswegen schlechter von dir denken

there is worse to come — es kommt noch schlimmer; see also worst 3. 1)

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adj.

schlechter adj.

schlimmer adj.

English-german dictionary > worse
109 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) nepareizs; aplams

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) kļūdījies

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) slikts; nepareizs; nosodāms

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) nepiemērots

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) Kas noticis?
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) nepareizi; aplami
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) sliktais; ļaunais; ļaunums
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) apvainot; aizvainot; darīt pāri

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong
* * *

netaisnība; darīt ļaunu, darīt pāri; aplams, nepareizs; maldīgs, kļūdains; aplam, nepareizi

English-Latvian dictionary > wrong
110 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) neteisingas

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) klystantis

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) blogas

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) netinkamas

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) blogas
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) neteisingai, blogai
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) blogis
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) įžeisti

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong

English-Lithuanian dictionary > wrong
111 wrong

adj. fel; felaktig; misstagen; oriktig; orätt, orättvis; oregelmässig; på fel sätt; felvänd, ut och in (kläder)
--------
adv. fel; missuppfattat; oriktigt, inkorrekt; orätt; felaktigt
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n. orätt; oförrätt; ont; orättvisa; olaglighet; brott; skada; fel, misstag; orätt, synd
--------
v. göra orätt; vara orättvis; skada, plåga; förorätta; misstänkliggöra

* * *
[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) fel, felaktig

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) fel

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) fel, orätt

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) fel

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) fel, i olag
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) fel, felaktigt
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) fel
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) förorätta, begå en orätt mot

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong

English-Swedish dictionary > wrong
112 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) nesprávný

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) na omylu

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) nemorální

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) nevhodný

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) ne v pořádku
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) špatně
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) zlo
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) křivdit

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong
* * *

• ukřivdit

• zlo

• příkoří

• špatný

• nemorálnost

• nepravý

• nemravnost

• nevhodný

• nesprávný

• chybný

English-Czech dictionary > wrong
113 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) nesprávny

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) nemať pravdu, mýliť sa

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) nesprávny

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) nevhodný

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) nie v poriadku
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) zle
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) zlo
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) krivdiť

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong
* * *

• zlo

• zle

• zlý

• ukrivdit

• hriech

• chybný

• chybne

• pokazený

• krivdit

• nedobrý

• nevhodne

• nevhodný

• nesprávne

• nesprávny

English-Slovak dictionary > wrong
114 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) greşit

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) incorect

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) rău

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) nepotrivit

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) în neregulă
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) incorect
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) rău
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) a jigni pe nedrept

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong

English-Romanian dictionary > wrong
115 wrong

[roŋ] 1. adjective
1) (having an error or mistake(s); incorrect: The child gave the wrong answer; We went in the wrong direction.) λανθασμένος, λαθεμένος, λάθος

2) (incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken: I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.) εσφαλμένος

3) (not good, not morally correct etc: It is wrong to steal.) κακός

4) (not suitable: He's the wrong man for the job.) ακατάλληλος

5) (not right; not normal: There's something wrong with this engine; What's wrong with that child - why is she crying?) αφύσικος, στραβός
2. adverb
(incorrectly: I think I may have spelt her name wrong.) λανθασμένα, στραβά, λάθος
3. noun
(that which is not morally correct: He does not know right from wrong.) κακό, αδικία
4. verb
(to insult or hurt unjustly: You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.) αδικώ

- wrongful
- wrongfully
- wrongfulness
- wrongly
- wrongdoer
- wrongdoing
- do someone wrong
- do wrong
- do wrong
- go wrong
- in the wrong

English-Greek dictionary > wrong
116 rectum

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
I.
Lit.:
deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,
Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:
manus una (navem) regit,
Lucr. 4, 903:
onera navium velis,
Caes. B. G. 3, 13:
arte ratem,
Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.
clavum,
Verg. A. 10, 218:
te ventorum regat pater,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:
vela,
Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:
coërcet et regit beluam,
Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:
equum,
Liv. 35, 11:
equos,
Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.
quadrupedes,
id. M. 2, 86:
spumantia ora (equi),
id. ib. 8, 34:
frena,
id. P. 4, 12, 24:
equi impotentes regendi,
Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:
currus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:
rege tela per auras,
Verg. A. 9, 409:
tela per viscera Caesaris,
Luc. 7, 350; cf.:
missum jaculum,
Ov. M. 7, 684:
sagittas nusquam,
Luc. 7, 515:
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Cat. 64, 113; cf.:
Daedalium iter lino duce,
Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:
caeca filo vestigia,
Verg. A. 6, 30:
diverso flamina tractu,
Ov. M. 1, 59:
gressus,
Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
B.
In partic., jurid. t. t.:
regere fines,
to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
II.
Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
A.
In gen.:
Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,
Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:
domum,
id. ib. 1, 39, 61:
rem consilio,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:
belli fera munera Mavors regit,
Lucr. 1, 33; cf.
bella,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:
omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,
Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:
alicujus animum atque ingenium,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:
animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),
Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:
mores,
Ov. M. 15, 834:
animos dictis,
Verg. A. 1, 153:
animum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:
ut me ipse regam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 27:
consilia senatus,
Quint. 12, 1, 26:
valetudines principis,
Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:
valetudinem arbitratu suo,
Suet. Tib. 68 al.:
neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,
Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:
jam regi leges, non regere,
Liv. 10, 13:
utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:
vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,
Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:
Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,
Tac. H. 3, 50:
nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,
Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:
quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?
Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,
rem publicam,
id. ib. 1, 26, 41;
1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;
2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:
Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 27, 43:
Frisios,
Tac. A. 4, 72:
populos imperio,
Verg. A. 6, 851:
imperiis Italiam,
id. ib. 4, 230:
legiones,
Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.
cohortes,
id. H. 4, 12:
exercitum,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:
domum,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:
diva, quae regis Antium,
Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:
Diana, quae silentium regis,
id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:
animi partes consilio,
Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:
ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,
id. ib. 2, 23, 43:
rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,
id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:
Tiberio regente,
Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:
stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,
Quint. 3, 8, 47:
quo regente,
Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:
Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,
i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
2.
To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):
errantem regere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 57:
rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
I.
P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:
contemptus regentium,
Tac. A. 12, 54:
in obsequium regentis,
id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:
vita regentis,
Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:
excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,
Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:
in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
II.
rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
A.
Lit., of horizontal direction:
pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),
Lucr. 4, 439:
sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,
id. 2, 249 Munro:
rectā regione iter instituere,
Liv. 21, 31:
India, rectā regione spatiosa,
Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:
ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:
via,
id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.
platea,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:
porta,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:
ostium,
id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:
ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),
Lucr. 4, 93:
cursus hinc in Africam,
Liv. 26, 43:
saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:
recto flumine,
Verg. A. 8, 57:
recto ad Iberum itinere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:
ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,
Verg. A. 8, 209:
recto grassetur limite miles,
Ov. Tr. 2, 477:
velut rectae acies concurrissent,
in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,
acies,
id. 35, 28:
qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 9:
hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:
adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,
Sen. Const. 5, 5:
rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,
id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:
oculi,
Suet. Aug. 16; cf.
acies,
Ov. M. 2, 776:
lumen,
Luc. 9, 638:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:
ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,
in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:
saxa,
perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:
rectae prope rupes,
id. 38, 20:
truncus,
Ov. M. 7, 640:
ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,
Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:
caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,
Quint. 11, 3, 69:
homines,
straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,
Quintia,
id. 86, 1:
puella,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:
senectus,
Juv. 3, 26:
iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,
does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:
vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,
Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:
crus Rectius,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:
rectior coma,
smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:
longā trabe rectior exstet,
Ov. M. 3, 78:
crura,
Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:
rectissima linea,
Quint. 3, 6, 83:
via,
id. 12, 2, 27. —
B.
Trop.
1.
In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):
ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:
rectā viā depelli,
Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;
so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,
Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:
recta consilia dare,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:
quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:
quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,
id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:
sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,
id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:
(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,
id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:
per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),
id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:
recto ac justo proelio dimicare,
Liv. 35, 4 fin.:
rectarum cenarum consuetudo,
a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,
cena,
Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:
recta,
Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:
domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),
Sen. Ep. 100, 6:
nominibus rectis expendere nummos,
i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):
absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,
suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:
rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:
quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:
aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,
Quint. 6, 3, 89:
cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,
id. 8, 5, 6;
so (opp. durum et incomptum),
id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:
mutare aliquid a recto,
id. 2, 13, 11:
recta et vera loquere,
i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:
qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,
Quint. 10, 5, 12:
ea plerumque recta sunt,
id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:
rectior divisio,
Quint. 7, 2, 39:
si quid novisti rectius istis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:
rectissima ratio,
Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):
honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:
nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,
id. Lael. 22, 82;
so with honestum,
id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:
(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:
recta consilia (opp. prava),
Liv. 1, 27:
in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),
Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:
curvo dignoscere rectum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:
mens sibi conscia recti,
Verg. A. 1, 604:
fidem rectumque colebat,
Ov. M. 1, 90:
recta ingenia (opp. perversa),
Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:
in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,
Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:
animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:
natura,
id. S. 1, 6, 66:
ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,
Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:
judex,
Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.
auditor,
Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:
vir rectus et sanctus,
id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:
beatus judicii rectus,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:
rectum est gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
b.
In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;
opp. obliqui casus),
Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
A.
rectā,
B.
rectō,
C.
rectē.
A.
rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):
hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:
jam ad regem rectā me ducam,
id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:
tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,
id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:
Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,
Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
B.
rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):
appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,
Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
C.
rectē.
1.
Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):
vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,
Cato, R. R. 33, 4:
sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,
Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:
satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
2.
Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):
recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:
fecisti edepol et recte et bene,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;
so with commode,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:
recte et sapienter facit,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:
recte atque ordine factum,
Cic. Quint. 7, 28:
recte atque ordine facere,
id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;
v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:
recte atque in loco constare,
id. Mur. 12, 26:
recte factum,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:
seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:
seu recte seu perperam facere,
Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:
recte dictum (opp. absurde),
Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:
recte concludere (opp. vitiose),
Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:
recte factum (opp. turpiter),
Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:
recte rationem tenes,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:
hercle quin tu recte dicis,
id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:
non recte judicas de Catone,
Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:
rectissime quidem judicas,
id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:
tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,
Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:
monere,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:
admonere recte,
id. Men. 5, 9, 33:
suis amicis recte res suas narrare,
properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:
hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,
consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:
aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,
duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:
alicui recte dare epistulam,
correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:
cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,
safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,
sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,
id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:
alicui suam salutem recte committere,
Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:
si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,
goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:
ludi recte facti,
id. 36, 2:
ver sacrum non esse recte factum,
id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:
valere,
id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:
apud matrem recte est,
i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,
recte esse,
id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:
recte sit oculis tuis,
Gell. 13, 30, 11:
olivetum recte putare,
properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:
solet illa recte sub manus succedere,
well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:
recte cavere,
to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:
deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,
well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,
vortere,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:
nec recte loqui alicui,
id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:
nec recte dicere in aliquem,
id. As. 1, 3, 3;
and simply nec recte dicere,
id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:
ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:
hic tibi erit rectius,
Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:
rectius bella gerere,
Liv. 3, 2 fin.:
non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
b.
With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:
locus recte ferax,
Cato, R. R. 44:
salvus sum recte,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:
morata recte,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:
oneratus recte,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:
non recte vinctus est,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
c.
Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
B.
So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:
rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,
i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,
in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!
Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

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117 regens

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
I.
Lit.:
deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,
Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:
manus una (navem) regit,
Lucr. 4, 903:
onera navium velis,
Caes. B. G. 3, 13:
arte ratem,
Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.
clavum,
Verg. A. 10, 218:
te ventorum regat pater,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:
vela,
Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:
coërcet et regit beluam,
Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:
equum,
Liv. 35, 11:
equos,
Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.
quadrupedes,
id. M. 2, 86:
spumantia ora (equi),
id. ib. 8, 34:
frena,
id. P. 4, 12, 24:
equi impotentes regendi,
Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:
currus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:
rege tela per auras,
Verg. A. 9, 409:
tela per viscera Caesaris,
Luc. 7, 350; cf.:
missum jaculum,
Ov. M. 7, 684:
sagittas nusquam,
Luc. 7, 515:
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Cat. 64, 113; cf.:
Daedalium iter lino duce,
Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:
caeca filo vestigia,
Verg. A. 6, 30:
diverso flamina tractu,
Ov. M. 1, 59:
gressus,
Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
B.
In partic., jurid. t. t.:
regere fines,
to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
II.
Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
A.
In gen.:
Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,
Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:
domum,
id. ib. 1, 39, 61:
rem consilio,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:
belli fera munera Mavors regit,
Lucr. 1, 33; cf.
bella,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:
omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,
Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:
alicujus animum atque ingenium,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:
animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),
Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:
mores,
Ov. M. 15, 834:
animos dictis,
Verg. A. 1, 153:
animum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:
ut me ipse regam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 27:
consilia senatus,
Quint. 12, 1, 26:
valetudines principis,
Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:
valetudinem arbitratu suo,
Suet. Tib. 68 al.:
neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,
Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:
jam regi leges, non regere,
Liv. 10, 13:
utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:
vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,
Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:
Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,
Tac. H. 3, 50:
nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,
Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:
quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?
Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,
rem publicam,
id. ib. 1, 26, 41;
1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;
2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:
Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 27, 43:
Frisios,
Tac. A. 4, 72:
populos imperio,
Verg. A. 6, 851:
imperiis Italiam,
id. ib. 4, 230:
legiones,
Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.
cohortes,
id. H. 4, 12:
exercitum,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:
domum,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:
diva, quae regis Antium,
Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:
Diana, quae silentium regis,
id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:
animi partes consilio,
Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:
ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,
id. ib. 2, 23, 43:
rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,
id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:
Tiberio regente,
Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:
stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,
Quint. 3, 8, 47:
quo regente,
Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:
Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,
i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
2.
To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):
errantem regere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 57:
rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
I.
P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:
contemptus regentium,
Tac. A. 12, 54:
in obsequium regentis,
id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:
vita regentis,
Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:
excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,
Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:
in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
II.
rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
A.
Lit., of horizontal direction:
pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),
Lucr. 4, 439:
sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,
id. 2, 249 Munro:
rectā regione iter instituere,
Liv. 21, 31:
India, rectā regione spatiosa,
Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:
ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:
via,
id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.
platea,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:
porta,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:
ostium,
id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:
ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),
Lucr. 4, 93:
cursus hinc in Africam,
Liv. 26, 43:
saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:
recto flumine,
Verg. A. 8, 57:
recto ad Iberum itinere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:
ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,
Verg. A. 8, 209:
recto grassetur limite miles,
Ov. Tr. 2, 477:
velut rectae acies concurrissent,
in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,
acies,
id. 35, 28:
qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 9:
hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:
adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,
Sen. Const. 5, 5:
rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,
id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:
oculi,
Suet. Aug. 16; cf.
acies,
Ov. M. 2, 776:
lumen,
Luc. 9, 638:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:
ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,
in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:
saxa,
perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:
rectae prope rupes,
id. 38, 20:
truncus,
Ov. M. 7, 640:
ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,
Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:
caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,
Quint. 11, 3, 69:
homines,
straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,
Quintia,
id. 86, 1:
puella,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:
senectus,
Juv. 3, 26:
iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,
does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:
vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,
Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:
crus Rectius,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:
rectior coma,
smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:
longā trabe rectior exstet,
Ov. M. 3, 78:
crura,
Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:
rectissima linea,
Quint. 3, 6, 83:
via,
id. 12, 2, 27. —
B.
Trop.
1.
In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):
ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:
rectā viā depelli,
Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;
so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,
Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:
recta consilia dare,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:
quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:
quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,
id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:
sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,
id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:
(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,
id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:
per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),
id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:
recto ac justo proelio dimicare,
Liv. 35, 4 fin.:
rectarum cenarum consuetudo,
a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,
cena,
Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:
recta,
Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:
domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),
Sen. Ep. 100, 6:
nominibus rectis expendere nummos,
i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):
absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,
suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:
rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:
quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:
aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,
Quint. 6, 3, 89:
cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,
id. 8, 5, 6;
so (opp. durum et incomptum),
id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:
mutare aliquid a recto,
id. 2, 13, 11:
recta et vera loquere,
i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:
qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,
Quint. 10, 5, 12:
ea plerumque recta sunt,
id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:
rectior divisio,
Quint. 7, 2, 39:
si quid novisti rectius istis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:
rectissima ratio,
Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):
honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:
nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,
id. Lael. 22, 82;
so with honestum,
id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:
(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:
recta consilia (opp. prava),
Liv. 1, 27:
in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),
Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:
curvo dignoscere rectum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:
mens sibi conscia recti,
Verg. A. 1, 604:
fidem rectumque colebat,
Ov. M. 1, 90:
recta ingenia (opp. perversa),
Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:
in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,
Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:
animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:
natura,
id. S. 1, 6, 66:
ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,
Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:
judex,
Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.
auditor,
Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:
vir rectus et sanctus,
id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:
beatus judicii rectus,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:
rectum est gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
b.
In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;
opp. obliqui casus),
Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
A.
rectā,
B.
rectō,
C.
rectē.
A.
rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):
hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:
jam ad regem rectā me ducam,
id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:
tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,
id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:
Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,
Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
B.
rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):
appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,
Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
C.
rectē.
1.
Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):
vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,
Cato, R. R. 33, 4:
sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,
Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:
satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
2.
Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):
recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:
fecisti edepol et recte et bene,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;
so with commode,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:
recte et sapienter facit,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:
recte atque ordine factum,
Cic. Quint. 7, 28:
recte atque ordine facere,
id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;
v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:
recte atque in loco constare,
id. Mur. 12, 26:
recte factum,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:
seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:
seu recte seu perperam facere,
Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:
recte dictum (opp. absurde),
Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:
recte concludere (opp. vitiose),
Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:
recte factum (opp. turpiter),
Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:
recte rationem tenes,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:
hercle quin tu recte dicis,
id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:
non recte judicas de Catone,
Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:
rectissime quidem judicas,
id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:
tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,
Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:
monere,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:
admonere recte,
id. Men. 5, 9, 33:
suis amicis recte res suas narrare,
properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:
hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,
consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:
aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,
duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:
alicui recte dare epistulam,
correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:
cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,
safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,
sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,
id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:
alicui suam salutem recte committere,
Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:
si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,
goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:
ludi recte facti,
id. 36, 2:
ver sacrum non esse recte factum,
id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:
valere,
id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:
apud matrem recte est,
i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,
recte esse,
id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:
recte sit oculis tuis,
Gell. 13, 30, 11:
olivetum recte putare,
properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:
solet illa recte sub manus succedere,
well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:
recte cavere,
to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:
deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,
well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,
vortere,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:
nec recte loqui alicui,
id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:
nec recte dicere in aliquem,
id. As. 1, 3, 3;
and simply nec recte dicere,
id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:
ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:
hic tibi erit rectius,
Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:
rectius bella gerere,
Liv. 3, 2 fin.:
non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
b.
With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:
locus recte ferax,
Cato, R. R. 44:
salvus sum recte,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:
morata recte,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:
oneratus recte,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:
non recte vinctus est,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
c.
Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
B.
So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:
rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,
i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,
in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!
Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > regens
118 rego

rĕgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. arg-, argami, to obtain; Gr. oregô reach after; cf. [p. 1552] Sanscr. rāgan; Goth. reiks, king; Germ. Reich and Recht], to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct (freq. and class.; syn.: guberno, moderor).
I.
Lit.:
deus est, qui regit et moderatur et movet id corpus, cui praepositus est,
Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:
manus una (navem) regit,
Lucr. 4, 903:
onera navium velis,
Caes. B. G. 3, 13:
arte ratem,
Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 12; cf.
clavum,
Verg. A. 10, 218:
te ventorum regat pater,
Hor. C. 1, 3, 3:
vela,
Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 24:
coërcet et regit beluam,
Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67:
equum,
Liv. 35, 11:
equos,
Ov. A. A. 3, 556; id. Ib. 474; cf.
quadrupedes,
id. M. 2, 86:
spumantia ora (equi),
id. ib. 8, 34:
frena,
id. P. 4, 12, 24:
equi impotentes regendi,
Liv. 35, 11; Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 28; Curt. 4, 15, 28:
currus,
Ov. A. A. 1, 4; Curt. 8, 14, 7: taurus ex grege, quem prope litora regebat, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 715 P.; Quint. 1, 1, 27:
rege tela per auras,
Verg. A. 9, 409:
tela per viscera Caesaris,
Luc. 7, 350; cf.:
missum jaculum,
Ov. M. 7, 684:
sagittas nusquam,
Luc. 7, 515:
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Cat. 64, 113; cf.:
Daedalium iter lino duce,
Prop. 2, 14 (3, 6), 8:
caeca filo vestigia,
Verg. A. 6, 30:
diverso flamina tractu,
Ov. M. 1, 59:
gressus,
Vulg. Judic. 16, 26.—
B.
In partic., jurid. t. t.:
regere fines,
to draw the boundaries, mark out the limits, Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 55; id. Top. 10, 43; id. Mur. 9, 22; Tib. 1, 3, 44; cf. Dig. 10, 1, and Cod. Just. 3, 39 tit. Finium regundorum.—
II.
Trop., to guide, lead, conduct, manage, direct.
A.
In gen.:
Deus qui omnem hunc mundum regit,
Cic. Rep. 6, 13, 13:
domum,
id. ib. 1, 39, 61:
rem consilio,
Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 13:
belli fera munera Mavors regit,
Lucr. 1, 33; cf.
bella,
Caes. B. G. 6, 17; Sil. 7, 47:
omnia nostra ita gerito, regito, gubernato, ut, etc.,
Cic. Att. 16, 2, 2:
alicujus animum atque ingenium,
Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 90; cf.:
animi motus (with moderari cupiditates),
Cic. Part. Or. 22, 76:
mores,
Ov. M. 15, 834:
animos dictis,
Verg. A. 1, 153:
animum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62:
ut me ipse regam,
id. ib. 1, 1, 27:
consilia senatus,
Quint. 12, 1, 26:
valetudines principis,
Tac. A. 6, 50; cf.:
valetudinem arbitratu suo,
Suet. Tib. 68 al.:
neque regerentur magis quam regerent casus,
Sall. J. 1, 5; cf.:
jam regi leges, non regere,
Liv. 10, 13:
utroque vorsum rectum est ingenium meum,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 6:
vellem suscepisses juvenem regendum,
Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 50; id. Claud. 9:
Silvanum specie obsequii regebat,
Tac. H. 3, 50:
nemo regere potest, nisi qui et regi,
Sen. Ira, 2, 15 fin.; Quint. 12, 10, 69.—
B.
Transf.
1.
To sway, control, rule, govern, have the supremacy over any thing:
quare qui convenit polliceri operam suam rei publicae, cum rem publicam regere nesciant?
Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 11; so,
rem publicam,
id. ib. 1, 26, 41;
1, 27, 43: in iis civitatibus quae ab optimis reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 34 fin.;
2, 9, 15: illa civitas optimatium arbitrio regi dicitur,
id. ib. 1, 26, 42; cf.:
Massilienses per delectos et principes cives summā justitiā reguntur,
id. ib. 1, 27, 43:
Frisios,
Tac. A. 4, 72:
populos imperio,
Verg. A. 6, 851:
imperiis Italiam,
id. ib. 4, 230:
legiones,
Tac. A. 15, 7; cf.
cohortes,
id. H. 4, 12:
exercitum,
Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 2; id. Pan. 9, 2:
domum,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 4:
diva, quae regis Antium,
Hor. C. 1, 35, 1:
Diana, quae silentium regis,
id. Epod. 5, 51.— Transf., of abstract objects:
animi partes consilio,
Cic. Rep. 1, 38, 60:
ut unius potestate regatur salus et aequabilitas et otium civium,
id. ib. 2, 23, 43:
rex ille (Tarquinius) neque suos mores regere poterat neque suorum libidines,
id. ib. 2, 25, 46.— Absol.:
Tiberio regente,
Tac. A. 4, 33; 13, 3:
stare rempublicam nisi uno regente non posse,
Quint. 3, 8, 47:
quo regente,
Verg. Cul. 333; Just. 1, 9, 23:
Clemens ambitioso imperio regebat,
i. e. used his authority to court popular favor, Tac. H. 2, 12.—
2.
To guide into the right way one who has erred; to set right, correct: non multa peccas, sed si peccas, te regere possum, old poet ap. Cic. Mur. 29, 60 (with corrigere and inflectere):
errantem regere,
Caes. B. C. 3, 57:
rogo, domine, consilio me regas, etc.,
Plin. Ep. 10, 19 (30), 1; cf.: alicujus dubitationem, id. ib 10, 118 (119), 3.— Hence,
I.
P. a. as subst.: rĕgens, entis, m., a governor, prince, ruler, regent:
contemptus regentium,
Tac. A. 12, 54:
in obsequium regentis,
id. Or. 41: clementia regentis, Sen. Clem. 1, 22, 3:
vita regentis,
Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 301:
excogitare nemo quicquam poterit, quod magis decorum regenti sit quam clementia,
Sen. Clem. 1, 19, 1; id. Ep. 59, 7:
in vulgus manant exempla regentum (= -tium),
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 168.—
II.
rectus, a, um, P. a., led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright, orthos.
A.
Lit., of horizontal direction:
pars Remorum recta est (opp. refracta),
Lucr. 4, 439:
sed nil omnino rectā regione viaï declinare,
id. 2, 249 Munro:
rectā regione iter instituere,
Liv. 21, 31:
India, rectā regione spatiosa,
Curt. 8, 9, 2; cf. id. 7, 9, 2:
ad nostras aedes hic quidem habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 26:
via,
id. Cas. 5, 2, 7; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37; Ter. And. 3, 4, 21; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 80; Mart. 8, 75, 2; cf.
platea,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 58; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35; 43:
porta,
Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 60:
ostium,
id. Mil. 2, 3, 58:
ostia viarum (opp. iter flexum),
Lucr. 4, 93:
cursus hinc in Africam,
Liv. 26, 43:
saxa quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant,
Caes. B. G. 7, 23 fin.:
recto flumine,
Verg. A. 8, 57:
recto ad Iberum itinere,
Caes. B. C. 1, 69; Liv. 22, 9:
ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis,
Verg. A. 8, 209:
recto grassetur limite miles,
Ov. Tr. 2, 477:
velut rectae acies concurrissent,
in a straight line, line of battle, Liv. 34, 28; so,
acies,
id. 35, 28:
qui (quincunx), in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est,
Quint. 8, 3, 9:
hic vos aliud nihil orat, nisi ut rectis oculis hanc urbem sibi intueri liceat,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:
adversus adparatus terribilium rectos oculos tenet,
Sen. Const. 5, 5:
rectis oculis gladios micantes videre,
id. Ep. 76, 33; 104, 24:
oculi,
Suet. Aug. 16; cf.
acies,
Ov. M. 2, 776:
lumen,
Luc. 9, 638:
vultus,
Stat. Th. 10, 542.—Of vertical direction:
ut hae (partes) rursum rectis lineis in caelestem locum subvolent,
in perpendicular lines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:
saxa,
perpendicular, steep, Liv. 21, 36 (just before: pleraque Alpium arrectiora sunt); cf.:
rectae prope rupes,
id. 38, 20:
truncus,
Ov. M. 7, 640:
ita jacere talum, ut rectus assistat: qui ita talus erit jactus ut cadet rectus,
Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 53:
caput rectum et secundum naturam (opp. dejectum, supinum), in latus inclinatum,
Quint. 11, 3, 69:
homines,
straight, erect, Cat. 10, 20; so,
Quintia,
id. 86, 1:
puella,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 123:
senectus,
Juv. 3, 26:
iterque Non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem,
does not shape his course directly forward, Ov. M. 2, 715:
vidit ut hostiles in rectum exire cohortes,
Luc. 7, 327. — Comp.:
crus Rectius,
Hor. S. 1, 2, 82:
rectior coma,
smoother, straighter, Sen. Ep. 95, 24:
longā trabe rectior exstet,
Ov. M. 3, 78:
crura,
Pall. 7, 7. — Sup.:
rectissima linea,
Quint. 3, 6, 83:
via,
id. 12, 2, 27. —
B.
Trop.
1.
In gen., right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting; opp. to what is false or improper: vobis mentes rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):
ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28 (just before: aperte, ita ut res sese habet, narrato); cf. id. And. 2, 6, 11: De. Estne hoc, ut dico? Li. Rectam instas viam: Ea res est, you ' re on the right way, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 39: in rectam redire semitam, cf. id. Cas. 2, 3, 33:
rectā viā depelli,
Quint. 2, 7, 29; 10, 1, 29; cf. Sen. Ep. 94, 54; Quint. 2, 6, 2;
so post-class.: de viā rectā declinare,
Gell. 1, 3, 15: a rectā viā avertere, Aug. Civ Dei, 12, 17, 2: ad rectum iter retrahere, Hier. in Osee, 2, 8 sq.; id. in Mich. 3, 5:
recta consilia dare,
Ter. And. 2, 1, 9:
quae sint in artibus recta ac prava dijudicare,
Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195; cf.:
quae sunt recta et simplicia laudantur,
id. Off. 1, 36, 130; Quint. 9, 3, 3:
sermo rectus et secundum naturam enunciatus,
id. 2, 5, 11; cf.:
(oratio) recta an ordine permutato,
id. 1, 13, 5; 9, 4, 27:
per Marathonis propugnatores recto sono juravit (opp. flexus vocis),
id. 11, 3, 168 Spald.; cf. id. 11, 3, 64:
recto ac justo proelio dimicare,
Liv. 35, 4 fin.:
rectarum cenarum consuetudo,
a regular, formal supper, Suet. Dom. 7; so,
cena,
Mart. 2, 69, 7; 7, 20, 2; also absol.:
recta,
Suet. Aug. 74; Mart. 8, 50, 10:
domus recta est (with contenta decore simplici),
Sen. Ep. 100, 6:
nominibus rectis expendere nummos,
i. e. on good securities, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura, correct, beautiful, Prop. 2, 18, 25 (3, 11, 3):
absque te esset, ego illum haberem rectum ad ingenium bonum,
suitable, qualified, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8.— Subst.: rectum, i, n.:
rectum est etiam in illis contentionibus gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38, 137:
quid verum, quid falsum, quid rectum in oratione pravumve,
id. Ac. 1, 5, 19:
aliter, quam est rectum verumque dicere,
Quint. 6, 3, 89:
cum sit rectum, Nocere facile est, etc.,
id. 8, 5, 6;
so (opp. durum et incomptum),
id. 8, 6, 65; (opp. vitiosum) id. 1, 5, 29:
mutare aliquid a recto,
id. 2, 13, 11:
recta et vera loquere,
i. e. sincerely, openly, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7:
qui haec recta tantum et in nullos flexus recedentia copiose tractaverit,
Quint. 10, 5, 12:
ea plerumque recta sunt,
id. 9, 2, 5; cf. id. 9, 2, 45.— Comp.:
rectior divisio,
Quint. 7, 2, 39:
si quid novisti rectius istis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 67; Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62.— Sup.:
rectissima ratio,
Quint. 2, 13, 3.—
2.
In partic.
a.
Morally right, correct, lawful, just, virtuous, noble, good (opp. pravus); as subst.: rectum, i, n., that which is right, good, virtuous; uprightness, rectitude, virtue (very freq.):
honesta res dividitur in rectum et laudabile. Rectum est, quod cum virtute et officio fit,
Auct. Her. 3, 2, 3: illud rectum, quod katorthôma dicebat, Cic. Fin. 4, 6, 15:
nec quicquam nisi honestum et rectum ab altero postulare,
id. Lael. 22, 82;
so with honestum,
id. ib. 21, 76; id. Fin. 1, 7, 25; id. Off. 1, 24, 82; id. Fam. 5, 19, 1 al.:
(opp. pravum) neque id Putabit, pravum an rectum siet, quod petet,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 76; id. Phorm. 5, 2, 6; Cic. Ac. 2, 11, 33; id. Or. 14, 45; id. Lig. 9, 30; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 2, 4, 20 et saep.; cf.:
recta consilia (opp. prava),
Liv. 1, 27:
in rectis (opp. in pravitatibus),
Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 31:
curvo dignoscere rectum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44:
mens sibi conscia recti,
Verg. A. 1, 604:
fidem rectumque colebat,
Ov. M. 1, 90:
recta ingenia (opp. perversa),
Plin. Ep. 4, 7, 3 et saep.:
in omni vitā suā quemque a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem non oportet discedere,
Cic. Att. 13, 20, 4:
animus secundis Temporibus dubiisque rectus,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 36:
natura,
id. S. 1, 6, 66:
ex consularibus, unus L. Caesar firmus est et rectus,
Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2:
judex,
Quint. 4, 1, 13; cf.
auditor,
Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 6:
vir rectus et sanctus,
id. ib. 2, 11, 5; cf. id. ib. 7, 31, 1:
beatus judicii rectus,
Sen. Vit. Beat. 6, 2.— Rectum est, with subjective-clause:
rectum est gravitatem retinere,
Cic. Off. 1, 38 fin.; so id. ib. 3, 11, 47; id. Mur. 2, 3; id. Att. 6, 9, 4.—
b.
In gram.: rectus casus, the nominative case (because not inflected;
opp. obliqui casus),
Varr. L. L. 1 sq.; Quint. 1, 4, 13; 1, 5, 61; Gell. 13, 12, 4 et saep.—Hence the adverbs,
A.
rectā,
B.
rectō,
C.
rectē.
A.
rectā (sc. viā). straightway, straightforwards, right on, directly (freq. and class.):
hic ad me rectā habet rectam viam,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 11; id. Ps. 4, 7, 37:
jam ad regem rectā me ducam,
id. Am. 4, 3, 8; 5, 1, 63; id. Capt. 3, 5, 93; id. Cas. prol. 43; id. Mil. 2, 5, 50; id. Merc. 5, 2, 92; id. Ps. 4, 2, 11; id. Rud. 3, 6, 13; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 7:
tu rus hinc ibis?... rectā,
id. Ad. 3, 3, 79; id. Hec. 3, 3, 12; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 62; 5, 6, 19:
Marius ab subselliis in rostra rectā,
Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80; id. Att. 5, 14, 2; 6, 8, 1; 16, 10, 1; id. Fam. 9, 19, 1; id. Verr. 2, 5, 61, § 160; id. Cat. 1, 9, 23; Auct. Her. 4, 50, 63; Auct. B. Afr. 18; 40; Auct. B. Hisp. 3; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 121 al.: tendimus hinc rectā Beneventum. Hor. S. 1, 5, 71. —
B.
rectō, straightforwards, directly (perh. only in the two foll. passages):
appellationes, quae recto ad principem factae sunt,
Dig. 49, 1, 21; Inscr. Grut. 611, 13.—
C.
rectē.
1.
Lit., in a straight line (horizontal or perpendicular), straightly, perpendicularly, uprightly, orthôs (very rare):
vitem bene enodatam deligato recte, flexuosa uti ne siet,
Cato, R. R. 33, 4:
sive aliae (atomi) declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur... quae (atomi) recte, quae oblique ferantur,
Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20:
satyri, cum quadrupedes, tum recte currentes, humanā effigie,
Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.—
2.
Trop., rightly, correctly, properly, duly, suitably, well, advantageously, accurately (very freq. in all periods and styles):
recta et vera loquere, sed neque vere neque recte adhuc Fecisti umquam,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 7; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8:
fecisti edepol et recte et bene,
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 20: si facias recte [p. 1553] aut commode, id. Cas. 2, 3, 42;
so with commode,
Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 100:
recte et sapienter facit,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 133; cf. id. ib. 3, 4, 12:
recte atque ordine factum,
Cic. Quint. 7, 28:
recte atque ordine facere,
id. Phil. 3, 15, 38; Sall. C. 51, 4; Liv. 24, 31; 28, 39; 30, 17 et saep.;
v. Brisson. Form. II. p. 197: recte ac merito miseriā commoveri,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 172:
recte atque in loco constare,
id. Mur. 12, 26:
recte factum,
Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 52:
seu recte seu pervorse facta sunt,
id. Trin. 1, 2, 146:
seu recte seu perperam facere,
Cic. Quint. 8, 31; so (opp. perperam) Sall. J. 31, 27; Liv. 29, 17:
recte dictum (opp. absurde),
Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 4:
recte concludere (opp. vitiose),
Cic. Ac. 2, 30, 98:
recte factum (opp. turpiter),
Caes. B. G. 7, 80 et saep.:
recte rationem tenes,
Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 47:
hercle quin tu recte dicis,
id. Men. 2, 3, 74; id. Merc. 2, 3, 77; 5, 4, 47: recte auguraris de me, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, 1:
non recte judicas de Catone,
Cic. Lael. 2, 9; cf.:
rectissime quidem judicas,
id. Rep. 3, 32, 44:
tum demum sciam Recta monuisse, si tu recte caveris,
Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 71 sq.:
monere,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 96; id. Ps. 4, 4, 12; id. Pers. 4, 4, 53; id. Rud. 3, 5, 49; cf.:
admonere recte,
id. Men. 5, 9, 33:
suis amicis recte res suas narrare,
properly, openly, id. Poen. 5, 6, 2:
hic (Epicurus) circumitione quādam deos tollens recte non dubitat divinationem tollere,
consistently, logically, Cic. Div. 2, 17, 40:
aliquem asservare recte, ne aufugiat,
duly, carefully, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 11:
alicui recte dare epistulam,
correctly, id. Ps. 4, 2, 33:
cum fuit cui recte ad te litteras darem,
safely, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 1; id. Fam. 1, 7, 1; so,
sed habebat ducem Gabinium, quicum quidvis rectissime facere posset,
id. Phil. 2, 19, 49; cf.:
alicui suam salutem recte committere,
Caes. B. G. 7, 6 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 74:
si recte ambulaverit is, qui hanc epistulam tulit,
goes as he ought, Cic. Att. 9, 4, 3: tabernaculum recte captum, i. e. in the prescribed manner (opp. vitio captum), id. Div. 2, 35, 75; Liv. 4, 7; cf.:
ludi recte facti,
id. 36, 2:
ver sacrum non esse recte factum,
id. 34, 44: procedere recte, well, rightly, Enn. ap. Acron. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 37 (Ann. v. 454 Vahl.): Pi. Recte valet? Ch. Vivit recte et valet, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 11, and 14:
valere,
id. Merc. 2, 3, 53:
apud matrem recte est,
i. e. she is quite well, Cic. Att. 1, 7 init.; so,
recte esse,
id. ib. 14, 16, 4 (with belle); Hor. S. 2, 3, 162 Orell.; cf.: Tullia nostra recte valet... Praeterea rectissime sunt apud te omnia, Dolab. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 9, 1:
recte sit oculis tuis,
Gell. 13, 30, 11:
olivetum recte putare,
properly, advantageously, Cato, R. R. 44:
solet illa recte sub manus succedere,
well, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 2:
recte cavere,
to look out well, take good care, id. Bacch. 3, 6, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 107; id. Most. 3, 3, 23; id. Men. 2, 2, 72; cf.: recte sibi videre, to look out well for one ' s self, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 12 Ruhnk.:
deos volo consilia vostra recte vortere,
well, happily, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 31; so,
vortere,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 41: recte vendere, well, i. e. dearly, at a high price (opp. male), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:
alicui nec recte dicere, i. e. male, injuriose,
Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 11; id. Most. 1, 3, 83; id. Poen. 3, 1, 13; cf.:
nec recte loqui alicui,
id. Bacch. 4, 4, 83:
nec recte dicere in aliquem,
id. As. 1, 3, 3;
and simply nec recte dicere,
id. Ps. 4, 6, 23.— Comp.:
ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius,
Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 46:
hic tibi erit rectius,
Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 31:
rectius bella gerere,
Liv. 3, 2 fin.:
non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum, rectius occupet Nomen beati, qui, etc.,
Hor. C. 4, 9, 46.— Sup., Cic. Rep. 3, 32, 44; v. supra. —
b.
With adjj., right, well, properly, very, much, to strengthen the idea (ante-class.): illasce oves, quā de re agitur, sanas recte esse, uti pecus ovillum, quod recte sanum est, etc., an ancient formula in Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 6:
locus recte ferax,
Cato, R. R. 44:
salvus sum recte,
Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 34:
morata recte,
id. Aul. 2, 2, 62:
oneratus recte,
id. Bacch. 2, 3, 115:
non recte vinctus est,
Ter. And. 5, 4, 52.—
c.
Ellipt., esp. in answers, in colloquial lang., well, quite well, right, excellently: Thr. Primum aedis expugnabo. Gn. Recte. Thr. Virginem eripiam. Gn. Probe. Thr. Male mulcabo ipsam. Gn. Pulchre, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3: quid vos? quo pacto hic? satin recte? (sc. est, agitur, valetis, etc.), quite well? id. And. 4, 5, 9; cf.: Le. Satin' salve? dic mihi. Ca. Recte, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 54; and: De. Quid fit? quid agitur? Sy. Recte. De. Optime'st, Ter. Ad. 5, 5, 3; Quint. 6, 3, 84.—
B.
So, in colloquial lang., freq. like benigne and the Gr. kalôs, or kallista echei, as a courteously evasive answer, all ' s well, it ' s all right, there ' s nothing the matter; or, in politely declining an offer, nothing is wanting, no I thank you: De. Unde incedis? quid festinas, gnate mi? Ch. Recte pater, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 33; cf.: So. Quid es tam tristis? Pa. Recte mater, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20; and: Ch. Quid tu istic? Syr. Recte equidem, id. Heaut. 3, 2, 7: Mi. Quid est? Aes. Nihil, recte, perge, id. Ad. 4, 5, 19:
rogo numquid velit? Recte inquit,
i. e. no, nothing, id. Eun. 2, 3, 51; so,
in an exclamation: clamabit, pulchre! bene! recte!
Hor. A. P. 4, 28.

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119 virtually

adv фактически, практически, в действительности, реально; по существу, на деле, в сущности

virtually powerless — фактически бессильный, не имеющий реальной власти

the request was virtually a command — эта просьба была, по существу, приказанием

Синонимический ряд:

1. almost (adj.) almost; approximately; basically; essentially; fundamentally

2. practically (adj.) implicitly; in essence; morally; practically; probably; substantially

3. essentially (other) essentially; implicitly; in essence; morally; practically

4. nearly (other) about; all but; almost; approximately; around; as good as; just about; more or less; nearly; roughly; say; some; well-nigh

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120 wrong

[rɔŋ]
1. adjective

1) having an error or mistake(s); incorrect:

The child gave the wrong answer

We went in the wrong direction.
خاطِئ، غَيْر صَحيح
2) incorrect in one's answer(s), opinion(s) etc; mistaken:

I thought Singapore was south of the Equator, but I was quite wrong.
مُخْطِئ
3) not good, not morally correct etc:

It is wrong to steal.
غَيْر لائِق
4) not suitable:

He's the wrong man for the job.
غَيْر مُناسِب
5) not right; not normal:

There's something wrong with this engine

What's wrong with that child – why is she crying?
غَيْر عادي، خَلَل
2. adverb

incorrectly:

I think I may have spelt her name wrong.
بِطَريقَةٍ خاطِئَه
3. noun

that which is not morally correct:

He does not know right from wrong.
خَطَأ، باطِل
4. verb

to insult or hurt unjustly:

You wrong me by suggesting that I'm lying.
يُسيئُ إلى، يَظْلُم

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