INVERT Copy link • INVERTinvertere (e.g., ordinem verborum; to read them backward; opposed to dicere recte; also IMPROP.; inversus annus = that has run its course, and turned, as it were, Hor.). [Vid: To CHANGE.] To invert the order of words, invertere ordinem verborum: to read words in inverted order, invertere ordinem et idem quasi sursum versus retroque dicere.