vice versa

adv

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ablative absolute vice versā (“the position having been reversed”), from feminine third declension noun vicis (“arrangement, order, position”) + feminine ablative singular of perfect passive participle versus, from vertō (“to turn, to reverse”).

1. The same but with the two items mentioned reversed.

   “Since there are two contestants left in the race, either Bob will come first place and Alice second place, or vice versa.”

   “The most loved scholar of the university wrote a memorable diary to his students, and vice versa, the students wrote to him.”