inversus

English

Etymology

From Latin inversus.

Noun

inversus

1. (music) The inverted part of a composition.

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of invertō (“invert, turn upside down”).

Participle

inversus (feminine inversa, neuter inversum); first/second-declension participle

1. inverted, upset, turned upside down

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	inversus	inversa	inversum		inversī	inversae	inversa
genitive	inversī	inversae	inversī		inversōrum	inversārum	inversōrum
dative	inversō	inversae	inversō		inversīs
accusative	inversum	inversam	inversum		inversōs	inversās	inversa
ablative	inversō	inversā	inversō		inversīs
vocative	inverse	inversa	inversum		inversī	inversae	inversa

Descendants

• Catalan: invers
• → French: inverse
• Galician: inverso
• Italian: inverso
• Old French: envers
  • French: envers
    • → Spanish: anverso
      • → Catalan: anvers
• Portuguese: inverso
• → Spanish: inverso

References

• “inversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.