casus rectus

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cāsus rēctus (literally “straight case”).

Noun

casus rectus (plural casus recti)

  1. (grammar, dated) The nominative case, sometimes grouped with the vocative case, as a single morphological case contrasted with the oblique case.
    Synonym: direct case

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