reversio
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]reversiō f (genitive reversiōnis); third declension
- The act of turning back (before reaching a destination), return.
- The act of returning or coming around again.
- (rhetoric) The inversion of words, anastrophe.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | reversiō | reversiōnēs |
| genitive | reversiōnis | reversiōnum |
| dative | reversiōnī | reversiōnibus |
| accusative | reversiōnem | reversiōnēs |
| ablative | reversiōne | reversiōnibus |
| vocative | reversiō | reversiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Russian: реверсия (reversija)
References
[edit]- “reversio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reversio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reversio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- reversio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.