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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--verso This week's theme: words related to words, writing, and language. 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. Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Nagyszalanczy's commonsense approach is evident from the verso of the title page to the captions of the hundreds of photos and drawings." Alexander Hartmann; Setting Up Shop; Library Journal (New York); Mar 15, 2000. X-Bonus Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

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