revers

• revere

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

revers (plural revers)

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

• server, verser

• reverz

revers m

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

• 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

revers c (singular definite reversen, plural indefinite reverser)

1. reverse

revers c or n (singular definite reversen or reverset, plural indefinite reverser, plural definite reverserne)

1. revers

From French revers and Latin reversus

• IPA^(key): /rəˈvɛːr/

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• Hyphenation: re‧vers

revers m (plural revers)

1. revers, lapel

• verser

From Old French revers, from Latin reversus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁəvɛʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

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 763899327:

     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

• “revers” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• resver, verres, verser

From Latin reversus via French revers

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

• “revers” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin reversus via French revers

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

• “revers” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin reversus.

revers 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

revers m (oblique and nominative feminine singular reverse)

1. opposite; reverse

• English: reverse (borrowed), revers (borrowed)
• French: revers