Where does “revers” come from?
revers (Dutch) comes from French revers, from Old French revers, from Latin reversus, from Latin revertor, from Latin rĕ-, from Latin prōdūcō, from Latin prō-, from Proto-Italic *pro- — passed , crossed.
revers (Dutch): revers, lapel
Ancestry of “revers”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | revers | reverse side; backhand |
| 2 | Old French | revers | reverse; opposite; contrary; opposite; reverse |
| 3 | Latin | reversus | returned |
| 4 | Latin | revertor | I return; I turn back, turn around |
| 5 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 6 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 7 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |