a retro
Italian
editEtymology
editCorresponds to a Vulgar Latin *ad retrō.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edit- (literary) behind
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 25–27; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- […] così l’animo mio, ch’ancor fuggiva,
si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
che non lasciò già mai persona viva.- So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
turn itself back to rebehold the pass
which never yet a living person left.
- So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
See also
editFurther reading
edit- rètro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana