英文词源
- retro-
- word-forming element meaning "backwards; behind," from Latin retro (prep.) "backward, back, behind," also of time, "formerly, in past times," probably originally the ablative form of *reteros, based on re- "back" (see re-).
L. retro stands to re- as intro, "in, within"; to in, "in," and as citro, "hither," stands to cis, "on this side." [Klein]
Common in combinations in post-classical Latin (the classical equivalent was post-). Active in English as a word-forming element from mid-20c.
中文词源
前缀re- 的比较级，-ter, 比较级后缀。见retrofit, retrospect.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：retro- 词源，retro- 含义。
来自拉丁语 retro,向后，往回，可能来自 re-的比较级，-ter,比较级后缀，词源同 exterior,interior.
