Rursusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

副詞

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 […]

使用する際の注意点

The term rūrsus is most common in the Classical period; rūsum and rūrsum are most common in the ante-Classical period.

参照

• “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