revers

• rever
• revere

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

revers (plural revers)

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

revers

1. plural of rever

• server, verser

• reverz

Borrowed from German Revers.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛvɛrs]

revers m inan

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 other 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”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “revers”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

• “revers” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• server, verser

Inherited from Old French revers, from Latin reversus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

revers m (plural revers)

1. reverse side
2. (figurative) downside, flipside
   • 2025 June 25, Geneviève van Lede, “ChatGPT, Gemini… penser le management à l'ère de l'IA”, in La Provence, →ISSN, Grand Sud:

     L'étude révèle un revers préoccupant à cette adoption.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. 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:

     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.

4. (tennis) backhand

   Antonym: coup droit

5. lapel

• → English: rever, revers
• → Romanian: rever
• → Swedish: revär

• “revers”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• resver, verres, verser

revers

1. In a reverse way or direction; upside-down. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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 oblique singular, 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

• French: revers
• → English: reverse, revers

Borrowed from French revers, from Latin Revers.

revers n (plural reversuri)

1. reverse

revers c

1. (finance) a promissory note

   Synonym: skuldebrev

2. (numismatics) a reverse

   Antonyms: avers, åtsida

• klave (“tails”)

• revers in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• revers in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• revers in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)