a retro

Italian

Etymology

Corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *ad retrō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a‿rˈrɛ.tro/

Adverb

a retro

  1. (literary) behind
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 25–27; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      [] così l’animo mio, ch’ancor fuggiva,
      si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
      che non lasciò già mai persona viva.
      So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
      ⁠turn itself back to rebehold the pass
      which never yet a living person left.

See also

  • di retro

Further reading

  • rètro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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