Rectificatus

Rectificatus is a Latin past participle form of the verb rectificare, meaning “made right” or “corrected.” In Latin grammar, rectificatus is masculine; rectificata is feminine, and rectificatum is neuter. As a participial adjective, it is used to describe something that has been corrected, set straight, or rectified, and it often appears in phrases modifying nouns such as libri rectificati (corrected books) or codex rectificatus (rectified manuscript).

Etymology and form reflect its roots in rectus (straight, right) and facere (to do/make) via rectificare, the verb “to rectify” or “to correct.” The participle is commonly encountered in medieval and scholarly Latin where editors, scribes, and philologists indicate corrected editions, emendations, or revised copies.

Usage in textual criticism and manuscript studies is the primary domain of rectificatus. It may appear on manuscript colophons, catalog entries, or edition notes to signal that a copy has undergone correction against earlier exemplars or inferred readings. In this context, rectificatus serves as a descriptive label rather than a formal title, and it helps distinguish a revised version from an original or uncorrected form.

In modern scholarship, terms like rectificatio or editio rectificata are more common for describing corrected editions, but rectificatus may still surface in cataloging or in Latin discourse about textual remediation. The term is generally not used as a proper name for a work or entity, and its meaning remains tied to the act of correction rather than to a standalone object.

See also: rectification, rectificatio, editio rectificata, textual criticism.