rursus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From re- (“back-”) +‎ vorsus, earlier form of versus (“towards, -wards”).

Adverb

rūrsus (not comparable)

  1. backward, turned back
  2. on the contrary
  3. in return, in turn, again
    Synonyms: dēnuō, iterum
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.13:
      Quibus profligatis rursus oppidani perterriti comprehensos eos, quorum opera plebem concitatam existimabant […]
      When they were overcome, the townsmen, again intimidated, arrested those persons by whose exertions they thought that the mob had been disturbed […]

References
  • “rursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • when the tide begins to go down: aestu rursus minuente
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