dierectus

From dis- + ērēctus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [di.eːˈrɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [di.eˈrɛk.tus]

diērectus (feminine diērecta, neuter diērectum, adverb dīērecte); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Old Latin, derogatory) crucified

   ī diērectus ― go get thee crucified

   apage in diērectum ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4.103–104:

     I dierectum cor meum, ac suspende te.
     Tu sussultas, ego miser vix asto prae formidine.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 206 BCE – 188 BCE, Plautus, Mercator 183–184:

     Qui potuit videre? — Oculis. — Quo pacto? — Hiantibus.
     — In hinc dierectus? Nugare in re capitali mea.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 67:

     DIERECTI dicti cruci fixi, quasi ad diem erecti. Varro Eumenidibus: apage in dierectum a domo nostra istam insanitatem!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Used in curses with verbs of motion, see also ī in malam crucem and compare English go and get hanged!.

First/second-declension adjective.

• diērectē

• “dierectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dierectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.