Curious the use of this retro, both adjective and invariable substantive.
It serves both to define a fashion inspired by what was done in the first half of the twentieth century, a mirror to examine oneself and possibly see what is happening in the back of a vehicle and, less known except for billiard fans, the effect applied to the cue ball by hitting it below its center so that it stops or recoils after hitting the object ball.
Read alsoAgenda, this Latin word for everyday life
The origin of many modern words
Beautiful resurrection in the 19th century and the 20th century for this Latin adverb "
in the opposite direction, from behind, behind, without or with the idea of movement
": "
Ingredi retro
" (walking backwards), "
Quasi retro et contra
" (by a kind of backward movement and in the opposite direction, Cicero), at the basis of many modern words: retrocession, retroactive, retrograde, retro rocket, etc.
From
Give Us Our Daily Latin
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