recte

Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)

Adverb

  1. Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
    • The Seignory of Castleton, containing 200 (sic, query recte 12,000) acres - 1924 December 31, Robert Dunlop and Geo. O'Brien, "An Unpublished Survey of the Plantation of Munster in 1622", The Journal of the Royal...
    • ELECTION OF GRAND COUNCIL [ recte COMMITTEE ] - 1972 T. P. O'Neill (ed.) Private Sessions of Second Dáil (Dublin) 26 August 1921
    • Here is a list of errors not observed by the corrector. 193: and (recte 'as') 735: a quartere (add 'ȝеге') 796: noblel (recte 'noble' or 'nobel') 1527: him (recte 'hem') 2455: holid (? recte 'helid') - 1974 Edmund...

Origin

From Latin recte (“rightly, correctly”).