directe

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīrēctus. Doublet of dret, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈɾɛk.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈɾɛk.te]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

directe (feminine directa, masculine and feminine plural directes)

1. direct (proceeding without deviation or interruption)

   Antonym: indirecte

2. direct (straight; not crooked)
3. direct (straightforward; sincere)

   Antonym: indirecte

Derived terms

• complement directe
• directament
• en directe
• indirecte

Related terms

• direcció
• dirigir

Adverb

directe

1. directly; straight to, right to

   Synonym: directament

   • 2011, Joan Torró Soriano, Pluja a la mar: El somni impossible d'Alessandro Malaspina, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 142:

     Tot va anar bé, fins i tot Montbou se'n va anar directe a descansar.

     Everything went well; Montbou even went straight to rest.

Noun

directe m (plural directes)

1. (boxing) cross (a hook thrown over the opponent's punch)

Further reading

• “directe”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈrɛk.tə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: di‧rec‧te

Adjective

directe

1. inflection of direct:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʁɛkt/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Homophone: directes

Adjective

directe

1. feminine singular of direct

Anagrams

• crédite, crédité, décrite

Interlingua

Adjective

directe (comparative plus directe, superlative le plus directe)

1. direct, straight

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• dērēcte

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈreːk.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈrɛk.te]

Participle

dīrēcte

1. vocative masculine singular of dīrēctus

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• dērēctē

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈreːk.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈrɛk.te]

Adverb

dīrēctē (comparative dīrēctius, superlative dīrēctissimē)

1. straight, not curved
2. moving straight forward, in straight line
3. direct, absolute

References

• “directe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “directe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “directe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• directe - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary

Norman

Adjective

directe

1. feminine singular of direct

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈɾeɡte/ [d̪iˈɾeɣ̞.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -eɡte
• Syllabification: di‧rec‧te

Adverb

directe

1. (obsolete) directly

   Synonym: directamente

   Antonym: indirecte

Further reading

• “directe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025