revers

See also: Revers and revers'

English

Alternative forms

• revere

Etymology

Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”).

Noun

revers (plural revers)

1. A lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side.

Translations

lapel, reversed

• Danish: revers
• Dutch: revers (nl) m
• Finnish: käänne (fi), revääri (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: revers (fr) m
• German: Revers (de) n

Anagrams

• server, verser

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Czech

Alternative forms

• reverz

Noun

1. a legal document, in which an inpatient, leaving a hospital against his medical doctor's advice, assumes responsibility for any potential consequences of his leaving
2. reverse, verso, tail

Usage notes

• In the "legal document" sense almost never used otherwise than in these expressions:

  podat revers - to sign the document

  podepsat revers - to sign the document

  odejít na revers - to leave a hospital having signed the document

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Danish

Noun

revers c (singular definite reversen, plural indefinite reverser)

1. reverse

Inflection

Declension of revers

common gender	Singular		Plural
	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)

1. revers

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Dutch

Etymology

From French revers and Latin reversus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rəˈvɛːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧vers

Noun

revers m (plural revers)

1. revers, lapel

Anagrams

• verser

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French

Etymology

From Old French revers, from Latin reversus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Noun

revers m (plural revers)

1. reverse side
2. 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 C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     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.

3. (tennis) backhand

   Antonym: coup droit

Further reading

• “revers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• resver, verres, verser

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Middle English

Adverb

revers

1. In a reverse way or direction; upside-down. [from 14^thc.]
   • 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; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     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

Etymology

From Latin reversus via French revers

Noun

revers m (definite singular reversen, indefinite plural reverser, definite plural reversene)

1. the reverse side of a coin or medal
2. reverse gear in a vehicle or machine

   sette bilen i revers ― put the car in reverse

References

• “revers” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin reversus via French revers

Noun

revers m (definite singular reversen, indefinite plural reversar, definite plural reversane)

1. the reverse side of a coin or medal
2. reverse gear in a vehicle or machine

   setje bilen i revers ― put the car in reverse

References

• “revers” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin reversus.

Noun

revers oblique singular, m (oblique plural revers, nominative singular revers, nominative plural revers)

1. reverse; opposite; contrary

   veez cy le fet qe prove le revers

   see here the fact that proves the contrary

Adjective

revers m (oblique and nominative feminine singular reverse)

1. opposite; reverse

Descendants

• French: revers
• → English: reverse, revers