retrovertere

retrovertere [CL retro-+vertere; cf. CL retroversus], a to turn backwards, reverse. b (pass. in middle sense) to return. c (p. ppl. as sb. n.) something turned backwards or put into reversed order. d (abl. as adv.) backwards, from behind. a ita de montis ardui cacumine in plaustro ~so violenter depulsa ad pedem montis illesa descendit Sim. Glasg. V. Kentig. 4; dum apparuerit directe contendens, / quis retrovertet robora quadrigarum? J. Howd. Cant. 137; telum quod mors ad vitam jecerat / retroversum mortem dilacerat Id. Ph. 597; ~to, to turne abak WW.  b ad suum unde fuerat egressus cubiculum ~sus est Spons. Mariae 24.  c retroversa dabo, que metro notificabo Garl. Hon. Vit. 86.  d ut si quis coram se ignem videat, ~so precipitium sentiat aque, utrobique periculum incurret R. Melun Paul. 165.