Antonyms for recto

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rek-toh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk toʊ

Definition of recto

Origin : "right-hand page in an open book" (opposed to verso or reverso), 1824, from Latin recto (in recto folio), ablative of rectum "right," (see right (adj.1)).

As in page : noun sheet of paper

Example sentences :

(recto) "Here begynneth the prologue of this present treatyse."
Extract from : « The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 » by Sebastian Brandt

The text ends on the recto of l 6, the last page being blank.
Extract from : « Game and Playe of the Chesse » by Caxton

Both the recto and the verso of the leaf have the full complement of 23 lines but there is a hiatus in the text.
Extract from : « Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University » by Anonymous

In addition to the ordinary page numbers, the printed text labeled the recto (odd) pages of the first leaf of each 4-page folio.
Extract from : « A Pindarick Ode on Painting » by Thomas Morrison

Stamp date of bill and cost in book on first recto after title page: "27 June 1914 Binding 75."
Extract from : « Library Bookbinding » by Arthur Low Bailey

Term indicating that the print on the verso falls exactly over that on the recto.
Extract from : « Library Bookbinding » by Arthur Low Bailey

The border on the recto of the vellum leaf shows through on the verso or back of the leaf.
Extract from : « Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering » by Edward Johnston

In the original, folio numbers (beginning after the table of contents) are printed only on the recto side of each leaf.
Extract from : « A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike » by Richard Rainolde

(folio 11 recto) The socket of the eye is not over-depressed, for it has to receive the images (spetie) of visible things.
Extract from : « Studies in the History and Method of Science » by Various

Concluding with a part of a page of 'Faults escaped' on the recto of last leaf.
Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 136, June 5, 1852 » by Various

Synonyms for recto

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