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retro
retro
English
Adjective
retro (comparative more retro, superlative most retro)
- Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
- 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
- Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.
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- Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.
Translations
of, or relating to the past, past times, or the way things were
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Noun
retro (plural retros or retroes)
- Something, such as a fashion, from the past; a retro trend.
- Abbreviation of retrorocket.
See also
Translations
retrorocket — see retrorocket
Latin
Adverb
retrō (not comparable)
References
- retro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- retro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- RETRO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “retro”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to back water: navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)
- to back water: navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)
- retro in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016