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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Vitruvius|origins=la regō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''dīrēctiō''' ''f'' (genitive dīrēctiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|dīrigō|-tiō|t1=to set straight, direct]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|la|dis-]] and [[rego|alt=regō]] “to guide”.^(Etymonline) It is also spelled [[m|la|dērēctiō]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Vitruvius uses it of the levelling of paving joints.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates him c. 84–c. 25 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was a rare word: in Vitruvius it meant alignment and levelling, and in Apuleius' On the World a straight line.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Quintilian uses it of directing the reason towards truth.^(OLD 2012) Late Christian writers gave it the moral sense of righteousness, uprightness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In medieval Latin it was fairness, equity, justice and the administration of justice.^(Niermeyer 1976) British writers used it of movement in a straight line and in astronomy of the direct motion of a planet.^(DMLBS) [[en|direction]] is recorded in the late 14th century as the action of directing.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of levelling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of directing the reason.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''direction'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Alignment, levelling; a straight line.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # The act of directing, aiming, [[m|en|direction]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Righteousness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Fairness, [[m|en|equity]]; justice.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin, astronomy)'' Direct motion of a planet.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[dīrēctus]]
+ * [[dīrigō]]
+ * [[en|direction]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}