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reverso (plural reversos)

1. (printing) Any of the left-hand pages of a book.

• verso

• recto

From English reversi.

• IPA^(key): [reˈverso]
• Rhymes: -erso
• Hyphenation: re‧ver‧so

reverso (uncountable, accusative reverson)

1. reversi, Othello

   Synonym: otelo

Found in Late Latin. From re- +‎ versō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈu̯er.soː/, [reˈu̯ɛrs̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈver.so/, [reˈvɛrso]

reversō (present infinitive reversāre, perfect active reversāvī, supine reversātum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) to turn back, turn around
2. (Late Latin) to turn round, invert

• “reverso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• reverso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin reversus (“returned”), active participle of revertor (“to turn back; to return”), from re- +‎ vertō (“to turn”). Doublet of revés, which was inherited.

• Hyphenation: re‧ver‧so

reverso (feminine reversa, masculine plural reversos, feminine plural reversas, not comparable)

1. reversed; turned around

   Synonyms: revirado, virado

2. opposite; contrary

   Synonyms: contrário, oposto

reverso m (plural reversos)

1. back (the reverse side)

   Synonyms: revés, traseiro

   Antonym: frente

2. opposite (the contrary of something)

   Synonyms: contrário, oposto

• reverso da medalha

• IPA^(key): /reˈbeɾso/ [reˈβ̞eɾ.so]
• Rhymes: -eɾso
• Syllabification: re‧ver‧so

Borrowed from Latin reversus.

reverso m (plural reversos)

1. back, back side, reverse

   Synonyms: revés, envés

reverso

1. first-person singular present indicative of reversar

• “reverso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10