rursus
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- (“back-”) + vorsus, earlier form of versus (“towards, -wards”).
Adverb
[edit]rūrsus (not comparable)
- backward, turned back
- on the contrary
- in return, in turn, again
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.13:
- Quibus profligatis rursus oppidani perterriti comprehensos eos, quorum opera plebem concitatam existimabant […]
- When they were overcome, the townsmen, again intimidated, arrested those persons by whose exertions they thought that the mob had been disturbed […]
- Quibus profligatis rursus oppidani perterriti comprehensos eos, quorum opera plebem concitatam existimabant […]
References
[edit]- “rursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- when the tide begins to go down: aestu rursus minuente
- when the tide begins to go down: aestu rursus minuente