droit

From French. Doublet of direct.

droit (plural droits)

1. (law) A legal right or entitlement.

Inherited from Old French droit (spelled dreit in Early Old French), inherited from Vulgar Latin *drēctus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus. Doublet of direct. In Middle French, it was for a time spelled droict to reflect the original Latin etymology.

• IPA^(key): /dʁwa/, /dʁwɑ/

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droit m (plural droits)

1. right (entitlement)

   J'ai le droit de dormir. ― I have the right to sleep.

   Antonym: interdiction

2. law (study of law)

   Il est étudiant en droit. ― He is a law student.

   Antonym: non-droit

3. (geometry) right angle

   Un angle de trois droits. ― An angle of 270 degrees.

droit (feminine droite, masculine plural droits, feminine plural droites)

1. right (on the right-hand side)

   Donne-moi ta main droite. ― Give me your right hand.

   Antonym: gauche

2. straight (not bent or crooked)

   Une rue droite. ― A straight road.

   Antonyms: courbé, tordu

3. (geometry) right (of an angle)

droit

1. straight, straight on
2. upright, straight, not bent or crooked

   Tenez votre tête droit. ― Keep your head straight.

   Synonym: juste

• endroit

• “droit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

droit m (feminine singular droitte, masculine plural droits, feminine plural droittes)

1. Alternative form of droict

• dreit, droict

Inherited from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus.

• (Old French) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾoi̯t/
• (Late Old French) IPA^(key): /ˈdɾo̯et/

droit m (oblique plural droiz or droitz, nominative singular droiz or droitz, nominative plural droit)

1. justice, right (that which is just)

droit m (oblique and nominative feminine singular droite)

1. right; correct; justified
2. right (on the right-hand side)

• Angevin: drait
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: droét
• Gallo: drait
• Middle French: droict (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: dreit
• Picard: droét
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: dret
• Tourangeau: dreit
• Walloon: droet

droit

1. rightly; justly
2. directly

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:droit.

• endroit