rĕcī^prŏcus — Lewis & Short
rĕcī^prŏcus, a, um, adj.perh. from reque proque, back and forth.
I Lit., turning back the same way, returning, receding (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): apud Attium: reciproca tendens nervo equino concita Tela;
reciproca est, quom unde quid profectum, redit eo,flung back, Varr. L. L. 7, § 80 Müll. (an imitation of the Homeric pali/ntona to/ca).—Esp. freq. of receding waters:
vadosum ac reciprocum mare,Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 26:
amnes,id. 9, 57, 83, § 176; 16, 36, 66, § 169; Tac. A. 1, 70;
and of the ebb and flow,Plin. 2, 27, 99, § 213; hence, poet., an epithet of the sea, Sil. 3, 60.—
II Trop., alternating, reciprocal, etc.:
voces,reverberating echoes, Plin. 2, 44, 44, § 115: argumenta, retorted, Gr. a)ntistre/fonta, Gell. 5, 10, 2:
ars,alternaling, reciprocal, Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 3; cf.
taliones,Gell. 20, 1, 35:
vices pugnandi,id. 15, 18, 3:
epistulae,Hier. Ep. 5, 1:
munus,Aus. Ep. 7.—
2 In gram., pronomen, a reciprocal pronoun, as sibi, se, Prisc. p. 939 P.: versus, which has the same metre when the order of words is reversed, e. g. Verg. A. 1, 8 (4); Diom. p. 515 P.— Hence, adv.: rĕcī^prŏcē, alternately, to and fro (cf.:
invicem, vicissim): fluere,Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.— Transf., conversely, Prisc. 1142 P.