revers
English
Translations
Czech
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɛvɛrs]
Noun
revers m
Usage notes
Danish
Inflection
Declension of revers
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | revers | reversen | reverser | reverserne |
genitive | revers' | reversens | reversers | reversernes |
Noun
revers c or n (singular definite reversen or reverset, plural indefinite reverser, plural definite reverserne)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rəˈvɛːr/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: re‧vers
French
Etymology
From Old French revers, from Latin reversus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ/
- Rhymes: -ɛʁ
Noun
revers m (plural revers)
- reverse side
- backhand
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:
- Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.
- Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.
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- (tennis) backhand
- Antonym: coup droit
Derived terms
Further reading
- “revers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Adverb
revers
- In a reverse way or direction; upside-down. [from 14thc.]
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
- they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.
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Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Old French
Noun
revers m (oblique plural revers, nominative singular revers, nominative plural revers)
Romanian
Declension
Declension of revers
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