revers
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse.
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revers (plural revers)
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revers
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revers m inan
- a legal document, in which an inpatient, leaving a hospital against his medical doctor's advice, assumes responsibility for any potential consequences of his leaving
- reverse, verso, tail
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- In the "legal document" sense almost never used other than in these expressions:
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Danish edit
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revers c (singular definite reversen, plural indefinite reverser)
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common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | revers | reversen | reverser | reverserne |
genitive | revers' | reversens | reversers | reversernes |
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revers c or n (singular definite reversen or reverset, plural indefinite reverser, plural definite reverserne)
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Etymology edit
From French revers and Latin reversus.
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revers m (plural revers)
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French edit
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Inherited from Old French revers, from Latin reversus.
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revers m (plural revers)
- reverse side
- backhand
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.
- Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.
- (tennis) backhand
- Antonym: coup droit
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Further reading edit
- “revers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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revers
- In a reverse way or direction; upside-down. [from 14thc.]
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin reversus via French revers.
Noun edit
revers m (definite singular reversen, indefinite plural reverser, definite plural reversene)
- the reverse side of a coin or medal
- reverse gear in a vehicle or machine
- sette bilen i revers ― put the car in reverse
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- “revers” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin reversus via French revers.
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revers m (definite singular reversen, indefinite plural reversar, definite plural reversane)
- the reverse side of a coin or medal
- reverse gear in a vehicle or machine
- setje bilen i revers ― put the car in reverse
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- “revers” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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revers oblique singular, m (oblique plural revers, nominative singular revers, nominative plural revers)
- reverse; opposite; contrary
- veez cy le fet qe prove le revers
- see here the fact that proves the contrary
Adjective edit
revers m (oblique and nominative feminine singular reverse)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French revers, from Latin Revers.
Noun edit
revers n (plural reversuri)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) revers | reversul | (niște) reversuri | reversurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) revers | reversului | (unor) reversuri | reversurilor |
vocative | reversule | reversurilor |