in a straight line · direct, without interruption · straight, truthful, frank, sincere
çekim: çoğul diretos
zıt: indireto
köken: Modified from learned form directo, borrowed from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”), from dīrigō (“lay straight; direct; distribute”), from dis- + regō (“to rule, to govern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Compare the inherited direito.
Frankish, of or pertaining to the Franks · French, of or pertaining to the French people.
çekim: çoğul francī · tamlayan francī
köken: From Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), itself from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). See also Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”).
a Frank (a person from the historical Germanic tribe of the Franks) · Frenchman · West European (seen from the point of view of the Greeks and Middle Eastern people)
çekim: çoğul frankere · tamlayan frankers
köken: From Old Norse frakkar pl, from Proto-Germanic *frankô m (“spear”), cognate with Old English franca (“spear”), Franca (“Frank”), German Franke. Borrowed to Medieval Latin Francus, Old French franc (“free, sincere”), Byzantine Greek Φράγκος (Phránkos, “Frank, person from Western Europe”), Arabic إِفْرَنْجِيّ (ʔifranjiyy, “Frank, person from Western Europe”).
Frank · Frenchman · franc (former currency of France and other countries)
çekim: çoğul francos
köken: From Late Latin francus (“Frankish”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). The adjectival forms, from Old French franc (“free”).
aile: francés, Francia, Francos
uendo, segundo dito he, por doze francos d'ouro da moneda del rey de França
Etimoloji
From rätt + fram, originally an adverb meaning "straightforward" (in the literal sense). Attested in the adjectival form since 1840.