English
retro
Retro comes from Latin retro ‘back, backwards, behind’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEretro‘back, backwards, behind’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentrétro
- Englishearliest quotation 1983retro
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEretro‘back, backwards, behind’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentrétro
- Englishearliest quotation 1983retro
Earliest quotation: 1983, Sightlines: “Richard Leacock's 1981 film portrait, Louise Brooks, was shown…”
Linked words
through Latin retro ‘back, backwards, behind’
Today it means
adj Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin retro / retro