reversio

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From revertō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

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reversiō f (genitive reversiōnis); third declension

  1. The act of turning back (before reaching a destination), return.
  2. The act of returning or coming around again.
  3. (rhetoric) The inversion of words, anastrophe.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative reversiō reversiōnēs
genitive reversiōnis reversiōnum
dative reversiōnī reversiōnibus
accusative reversiōnem reversiōnēs
ablative reversiōne reversiōnibus
vocative reversiō reversiōnēs

Descendants

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  • Russian: реверсия (reversija)

References

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  • 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)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934) “reversio”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.