a retro
Italian
Etymology
Corresponds to a Vulgar Latin *ad retrō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a‿rˈrɛ.tro/
Adverb
- (literary) behind
- mid 1300s–mid 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.
- So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
See also
- di retro
Further reading
- rètro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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