retro

Borrowed from French rétro, ultimately from Latin retro.

• enPR: rĕt′rō
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ/

  Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /reʈˈroː/
• Rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊ
• Hyphenation: ret‧ro

retro (comparative more retro, superlative most retro)

1. 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^[1]:

     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.

2. Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.

retro (countable and uncountable, plural retros or retroes)

1. (uncountable) Past fashions or trends.
2. (countable) Abbreviation of retrorocket.
3. (countable) Abbreviation of retrospective.
   • 1983, Sightlines, volumes 16-17, page 44:

     Richard Leacock's 1981 film portrait, Louise Brooks, was shown during a retro of Ms. Brooks's films at the Walker Art Center.

4. (chess) A chess puzzle of retrograde analysis, requiring the solver to work out the history of moves leading to the position presented.

• (fashion, the past, trend, style): retro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Torre

From English retro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈretro/, [ˈre̞t̪ro̞]
• Rhymes: -etro
• Syllabification^(key): ret‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): ret‧ro

retro

1. retro style, retro

• “retro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

retro (not comparable)

1. back

From Latin retrō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.tro/
• Rhymes: -ɛtro
• Hyphenation: rè‧tro

retro

1. behind

retro m (invariable)

1. back, rear, reverse

• Torre, terrò, torre

From Proto-Italic *wretrō, from a formation of re- (“back, reverse”) probably modeled after intrō and other similar adverbs.^[1]

retrō (not comparable)

1. back, backwards, behind

   Vāde retrō, Satanā!

   Get thee behind me, Satan!

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.489–490:

     “[...] sistere aquam fluviīs, et vertere sīdera retrō, / nocturnōsque movet mānīs [...].”

     “[The enchantress claims that she is able] to halt the water [current] in rivers, and to turn stars backwards, and evoke nocturnal souls of the dead [...].”

2. before, formerly

• *ad retrō
• dē retrō

• Catalan: rere
• Galician: redor
• Italian: retro
• Portuguese: redor
• Spanish: redor

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• retro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to back water: navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)
    
• retro in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Unadapted borrowing from French rétro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.trɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛtrɔ
• Syllabification: re‧tro
• Homophone: retro-

retro (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (fashion) retro (of or relating to the past, past times, or the way things were)

• retro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French retro.

retro m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. retro

Borrowed from Latin retrō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈretɾo/ [ˈre.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -etɾo
• Syllabification: re‧tro

retro m or f (masculine and feminine plural retros)

1. retro

• “retro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024