Dictionary

reciprocally en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin reciprocusder. English reciprocal Middle English -ly English -ly English reciprocally From reciprocal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a reciprocal manner; by way of returning (e.g. a favour, insult, etc).
   • In the process of production, human beings work not only upon nature, but also upon one another. They produce only by working together in a specified manner and reciprocally exchanging their activities. 1891, Karl Marx, translated by Frederick Engels, Wage Labour and Capital:
   • Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated. It is incarnated in real (not ideal) relations and actual (physical) terms, each of which exists in relation to each other, reciprocally determining each other. 2006, Constantin V. Boundas, Deleuze and Philosophy, →ISBN, page 160:
   • When younger brother calls [his elder brother's wife] his "co-wife" and reciprocally, when she calls him co-husband," rights in sexuality are being satirized. 1997, David Lipset, Mangrove man: dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary, page 72:

Forms

Antonyms

irreciprocally

Synonyms

reciprocally · gainwise · in kind · mutually

Translations (24)

de wechselseitig (in a reciprocal manner) · it vicendevolmente (in a reciprocal manner) · eo reciproke (in a reciprocal manner) · es recíprocamente (in a reciprocal manner) · fr réciproquement (in a reciprocal manner) · ro în mod reciproc (in a reciprocal manner) · pl wzajemnie (in a reciprocal manner) · fi vastavuoroisesti (in a reciprocal manner) · it reciprocamente (in a reciprocal manner) · pl obustronnie (in a reciprocal manner) · pt reciprocamente (in a reciprocal manner) · de in wechselseitiger Weise (in a reciprocal manner) · cy yn gilyddol (in a reciprocal manner) · de in umgekehrter Weise (in a reciprocal manner) · de umgekehrt (in a reciprocal manner) · de reziprok (in a reciprocal manner) · de wechselweise (in a reciprocal manner) · de anders herum (in a reciprocal manner) · sv ömsesidigt (in a reciprocal manner) · pl obopólnie (in a reciprocal manner) · bg реципро́чно (in a reciprocal manner) · cy yn ddwyochrog (in a reciprocal manner) · ro în manieră reciprocă (in a reciprocal manner) · ca recíprocament (in a reciprocal manner)