drictus

Latin

From dīrēctus. Attested beginning from the fifth century.[1]

The spelling reflects an Italo-Western merger of Latin ē and i as /e/.

drictus (feminine dricta, neuter drictum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

drictus m (genitive drictī); second declension (Late Latin)

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: dreptu ⇒ ãndreptu, ãdreptu, adreptu, ndreptu, adireptu
- Romanian: drept
- → Albanian: drejtë
Dalmatian:
- drat
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: dritto
- Sicilian: drittu
  - → Maltese: dritt
Padanian:
- Friulian: dret
- Ladin: dërt
- Lombard: drecc, dreç, driç
- Piedmontese: dret, drecc
- Romansch: dretg, dret
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: drêt
- Old French: droit, dreit, droict
  - 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
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: dreito
- Catalan: dret
- Occitan:
  - Gascon: dret
  - Languedocien: drech, dreit
  - Limousin: drech, dreit
  - Auvergnat: dreit
  - Provençal: drech
  - Vivaro-Alpine: drech, dreit
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: dreitu, drechu
- Galician: dreito

Brachet, Auguste, A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue, tr. G. W. Kitchin, M. A., Clarendon Press, 1869, p. 50

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