derecho
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Spanish derecho (“straight”). First used by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in 1888, apparently coined to distinguish the winds from tornadoes, which rotate;[1][2] compare tornado. Doublet of direct.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]derecho (plural derechos or derechoes)
- (meteorology, US) A windstorm characterized by strong, straight-line winds.
- 2015, Chris J. Peterson, Jeffery B. Cannon, Christopher M. Godfrey, “5: First Steps Toward Defining the Wind Disturbance Regime in Central Hardwoods Forests”, in Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly S. Collins, editors, Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, Springer, page 116:
- Combining all of the above, the Arkansas Valley, Ouachita Mountains, Interior Plateau, and Southwest Appalachian ecoregions have the greatest risk of wind damage from tornadoes and derechos, whereas weakening hurricanes are an important disturbance, especially in the Piedmont ecoregion.
- 2016, Bill Streever, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, Hachette, unnumbered page:
- Derechos have winds as powerful as those of some hurricanes and tornadoes. "Derecho" comes from the Spanish word meaning "straight."
- 2022, Alexander Gates, Earth's Fury, Wiley, unnumbered page:
- A derecho can be as destructive as a weak to moderate tornado, but the damage is mainly the result of straight-line rather than rotating winds.
However, tornadoes can also form along the bow of a derecho. Derechos can sometimes be recognized as a bank of ominous-looking "shelf" clouds that appear darker than normal clouds.
Translations
[edit]windstorm with strong straight-line winds
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References
[edit]- ^ Ray Wolf, "A Brief History of Gustavus Hinrichs, Discoverer of the DERECHO"
- ^ Ammon Shea, "All about the weather", OxfordWords blog, 25 July 2012
Further reading
[edit]- derecho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- August 2020 Midwest derecho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]derecho
Ladino
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *dērēctus, from Latin dīrectus.
Adjective
[edit]derecho (Latin spelling, feminine derecha)
Derived terms
[edit]Papiamentu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]derecho
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *dērēctus, from Latin dīrectus.[1] Doublet of directo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]derecho (feminine derecha, masculine plural derechos, feminine plural derechas)
- straight (not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length)
- Synonym: recto
- straight; upright (perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique)
- sentarse derecho ― to sit upright
- right, right-hand (designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north)
- la mano derecha ― the right hand
- correct, appropriate, right
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]derecho m (plural derechos)
- right (a legal, just or moral entitlement)
- el derecho al voto ― the right to vote
- derechos humanos ― human rights
- law, jurisprudence (the study of laws)
- law (the profession of dealing with laws (as lawyers, judges, etc.))
- right (the outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.)
- (textiles) right side (The side of a fabric that is intended to face outward on a finished project)
- 2014, Juliana Vaquero González, Planchado y arreglo de ropa en alojamientos, Ideaspropias Editorial, →ISBN, page 163:
- Las puntadas que se realizan no deben traspasar la tela y, por lo tanto, no debe verse por el derecho.
- The stitches made should not go through the fabric, and, therefore, should not be seen on the right side.
- (textiles) right side (The side of a fabric that is intended to face outward on a finished project)
- (knitting) a knit stitch
- (in the plural) duties, taxes, fees, charges
- (rare) path, road
Derived terms
[edit]- amiga con derecho a roce
- amiga con derechos
- amigo con derecho a roce
- amigo con derechos
- amistad con derechos
- carta de derechos
- conforme a derecho
- de pleno derecho
- derecho administrativo
- derecho adquirido
- derecho canónico
- derecho civil
- derecho común
- derecho comunitario
- derecho constitucional
- derecho consuetudinario
- derecho de admisión
- derecho de autor
- derecho de familia
- derecho de gentes
- derecho de pernada
- derecho del trabajo
- derecho divino
- derecho eclesiástico
- derecho exclusivo
- derecho familiar
- derecho financiero
- derecho fundamental
- derecho humano
- derecho internacional
- derecho laboral
- derecho marítimo
- derecho mercantil
- derecho natural
- derecho penal
- derecho personal
- derecho político
- derecho privado
- derecho procesal
- derecho público
- derecho real
- derecho subjetivo
- derecho tributario
- derechos de autor
- derechos de los animales
- derechos humanos
- derechos sucesorios
- Estado de derecho
- ignorancia del derecho
- no hay derecho
- principio de derecho
Descendants
[edit]Adverb
[edit]derecho
- straight (of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line)
- Synonym: recto
- Sigue derecho. ― Keep going [straight].
- straight (directly; without pause, delay or detour)
- Synonym: directamente
References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “derecho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “derecho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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