The corpus record — Latin

reversio

reversio · f

A turning back

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Where it lives

Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Philippicae 4 · 0.76/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

rĕversĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕversĭo (rĕvors-), ōnis, f.reverto.

1 A turning back before reaching one's destination (differing from reditus, a coming back, return): quam valde ille reditu vel potius reversione meă laetatus, Cic. Att. 16, 7, 5: exponam vobis breviter consilium et profectionis et reversionis meae, id. Phil. 1, 1, 1: reversionem ut ad me faceret denuo, Plaut. Truo. 2, 4, 45; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 62; Varr. ap. Non. 222, 19; 245, 14. —

2 Of things in gen., a returning, return: febrium, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24: annua (solis), App. Mund. p. 71, 6; cf. in plur.: planetarum temporum, id. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 7, 4.—

II Trop., gram. t. t. for a)nastrofh/, an inversion of words (like mecum, secum, quibus de rebus), Quint. 8, 6, 65.

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