Reciprocus, p. cor. Adiectiuum. Varto. That hath recourse or respect thither from whence it came.Motus reciproci. Sen. Reciprocus amnis. Plin. Mare reciprocum Plin.A sea ebbing and flowing.Aestus reciprocus. Plin. The ebbing and flowing of the sea.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕcīprŏcus, a, um, adj. [perh. from reque proque, back and forth]. I.Lit., turning back the same way, returning, receding (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): apud Attium: reciproca tendens nervo equino concita Tela; reciproca est, quom unde quid profectum, redit eo,
flung back
, Varr. L. L. 7, 80 Müll. (an imitation of the Homeric pali/ntona to/ca).—Esp. freq. of receding waters: vadosum ac reciprocum mare, Plin. 5, 4, 4, 26: amnes, id. 9, 57, 83, 176; 16, 36, 66, 169; Tac. A. 1, 70; and of the ebb and flow, Plin. 2, 27, 99, 213; hence, poet., an epithet of the sea, Sil. 3, 60.—II.Trop., alternating, reciprocal, etc.: voces,
, Plin. 11, 2, 1, 3; cf. taliones, Gell. 20, 1, 35: vices pugnandi, id. 15, 18, 3: epistulae, Hier. Ep. 5, 1: munus, Aus. Ep. 7.—2. In gram., pronomen, a reciprocal pronoun, as sibi, se, Prisc. p. 939 P.: versus, which has the same metre when the order of words is reversed, e. g. Verg. A. 1, 8 (4); Diom. p. 515 P.— Hence, adv.: rĕcīprŏcē, alternately, to and fro (cf.: invicem, vicissim): fluere, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.— Transf., conversely, Prisc. 1142 P.
