adverb
retrōrsum
retrōrsum (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablebackwards
- not comparablein reverse order
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
retrō versusretrōrsus — in Aeneis, ch. 19
rē^trōrsum and rē^trōrsus, v. retroversus.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
retrōrsum (C., H.) or retrōrsus (V.), adv.
retroversus, back, backward, behind : vestigia nulla retrorsum, H.: mutata te ferat aura, H.: relegens errata retrorsus Litora, V.—Fig., in return, in reversed order : oritur ex aëre aether; deinde retrorsum, etc.
Origins
Contraction of retrō + vorsum (archaic form of versum, versus).
Descendants
- Italianritroso
- Italianretrorso
In English words that came into English from retrōrsum
- retrorseretrorsus