核心畫面

A way to hold this word: something has been pulled away from where it used to sit, and someone is holding it there. Let go, and it slides back. Reversion is the name of that slide back — not the letting go, and not the place, but the going-back itself. What slides can be a habit, a rule, a name, or a field of land; the picture does not change, only the thing in it.

可以想成:一樣東西被從原來的位置拉開,有人一直抓著它。手一鬆,它就滑回去。reversion 就是在叫「滑回去」這件更多收起可以想成:一樣東西被從原來的位置拉開,有人一直抓著它。手一鬆,它就滑回去。reversion 就是在叫「滑回去」這件事——不是放手,也不是那個位置,而是回去的過程本身。滑回去的可以是一個習慣、一條規定、一個名字,也可以是一塊地;畫面不變,變的只是裡面那樣東西。

From the word’s history

The supplied entry takes reversion from Latin reversio, from reverto — re-, back, plus verto, turn. Read through English parts it is revert + -sion, the noun of the turning back. The slide-back picture is the word's own shape.

來源說 reversion 出自拉丁文 reversiō,背後是 revertō:re-(回)加上 vertō(轉)。用英文的零件看就是 revert 加上 -sion,把「轉回去」變成一個名詞。這個滑回去的畫面,本來就長在字的形狀裡。

Wiktionary entry for reversion (noun), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1122521473, supplied in this packet

From the picture

財產回到原主(法律)

同一個滑回去的畫面,只是把滑回去的那樣東西指定成財產。法律要的正是這種精準:先講清楚東西暫時交給誰、交多久,再講清楚時間一到它回到誰手上。

noun · C2

In law: the return of property to its earlier owner, or to that owner's family, when the time or the conditions of a grant, lease or gift have run out.

(法律)產權回歸

Also in this word

noun · C1

A going back to an earlier state, an earlier way of doing things, or an old habit.

回復;回到原樣