Definition of "recte"

recte

adverb
not comparable
1. Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it)
  Quotations
  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 O'Brien, "An Unpublished Survey of the Plantation of Munster in 1622", The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Sixth Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 p.132
  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 Colledge THE CAPGRAVE 'AUTOGRAPHS', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, p.142