rursus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adverb

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

  • “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • when the tide begins to go down: aestu rursus minuente
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