vice versa
- 1In the same way, but with the two things just mentioned reversed.
Each volunteer received the drug in the first month and the placebo in the second, or vice versa.
Whether the husband takes the wife's name or vice versa is entirely up to the couple.
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Note
English took this phrase whole from a Latin ablative absolute, vice versā, “the position having been reversed”: vicis meant “order, position”, and versus is the passive participle of vertō, “to turn”. It usually follows or, offering the swap as the other possibility. After and it claims more, because both directions hold at once. Choose the conjunction by whether you mean either case or both.
Parents shape their children, and vice versa.
Good sleep improves your mood, and vice versa.
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Origin
Borrowed from the Latin ablative absolute vice versā ("the position having been reversed"). It is formed from the noun vicis ("arrangement, order, position") plus the feminine ablative singular of versus, the perfect passive participle of vertō ("to turn, to reverse").