The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 54, December 25, 2005, Article 12

VOCABULARY WORD: VERSO

The theme of the Word-A-Day mailing list this week is
words related to words, writing, and language.  Wednesday's
selection was "verso", a word bibliophiles have likely
seen in auction catalog book descriptions:

"verso (VUR-so) noun

  1. A left-hand page.
  2. The back of a page.

[Short for Latin verso folio, from verso (turned) and
folio (leaf).  From versus (turning), from vertere (to
turn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to
turn or bend), also the source of wring, weird, writhe,
worth, revert, and universe.]

The counterpart of this word is recto, the right-hand page."

See the full entry on the Wordsmith web site: Wordsmith.org

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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