retro-
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See retro.
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retro-
- Back or backward.
- Behind.
- In the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to an earlier time.
- retroactive
- (informal) Old-fashioned or old school.
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back or backward
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retro-
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From
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- “retro-” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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Borrowed from English retro-, Italian retro-.
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retro-
- prefix used with a verbal root to indicate: back, backwards, inverse action, return: retro-, re-
- Antonym: avan-
- jetar (“to throw”) + retro- → retrojetar (“to throw back”)
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- → Esperanto: retro-
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retro-
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- “retro-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014