rursus

Latin

Alternative forms

• rūrsum, rūsum

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • when the tide begins to go down: aestu rursus minuente