versoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin in versō foliō (“on the turned leaf, on the turned page”), the ablative case of the Latin versus (“turned, changed”) from the perfect passive participle of vertō (“turn”). Compare rēctus (“right”).

発音

• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)səʊ

名詞

verso (plural versos)

1. The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal;
   1. (printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an even page number.

同意語

• (back side of a flat object): back, flipside, backside, reverse
• (left-hand page of a book): reverso

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “back side of a flat object”): recto, obverse
• (antonym(s) of “left-hand page of a book”): recto

アナグラム

• Vores, overs, roves, servo, vores

語源

Frequentative verb of vertō.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈwɛr.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvɛr.so]

動詞

versō (present infinitive versāre, perfect active versāvī, supine versātum); first conjugation

1. to turn often, keep turning, handle, whirl about, turn over

   Synonyms: vertō, circumagō

2. to treat, manage
3. to pervert, alter, change

   Synonyms: alterō, trānsferō, mūtō, commūtō, vertō, cōnferō

4. to discompose, disturb, vex, agitate

   Synonyms: fatīgō, turbō, perturbō, percieō, concieō, cieō, sollicitō, agitō, angō, disturbō, īnfestō, irrītō, stimulō, ēvertō, peragō, concitō, agō, moveō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

5. to overthrow, ruin, subvert

   Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, fundō, pervertō, ēvertō, dēturbō, sternō, prōsternō, afflīgō, dissipō, vertō

6. (figuratively) to think over or through, meditate, reflect upon, revolve or turn over in one’s mind, consider, ponder

   Synonyms: reflectō, ponderō, dēlīberō, putō, pendō, perpendō, cōnsīderō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, dubitō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.285–286:

     Atque animum nunc hūc celerem nunc dīvidit illūc,
     in partīsque rapit variās perque omnia versat.

     And his swift mind parses now this [idea], now that [one], picks among varied options, and thinks through them all.
     (Aeneas considers how to end his relationship with Dido and leave Carthage.)

Conjugation

The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

派生語

派生した語

Participle

versō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of versus

参照

• “verso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “verso”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “verse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.