Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From re- (back-) +‎ vorsus, earlier form of versus (towards, -wards).

Adverb edit

rūrsus (not comparable)

  1. backward, turned back
  2. on the contrary
  3. in return, in turn, again
    Synonyms: dēnuō, iterum
    • 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 []

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