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English
Etymology
From Latin inversus.
Noun
inversus
- (music) The inverted part of a composition.
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of invertō (“invert, turn upside down”).
Participle
inversus (feminine inversa, neuter inversum); first/second-declension participle
- inverted, upset, turned upside down
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “inversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.