Editing Recto and verso (section)

==Etymology==
The terms are shortened from Latin: {{Lang|la|rēctō foliō}} and ''{{Lang|la|versō foliō}}'' (which translate as "on the right side of the leaf" and "on the back side of the leaf"). The two opposite [[Page (paper)|pages]] themselves are called ''{{Lang|la|folium rēctum}}'' and ''{{Lang|la|folium versum}}'' in Latin,<ref>
e.g. ''Quibus carminibus finitur totum primum folium versum (rectum vacat) voluminis'' "These poems finish the full back page (the front is blank) of the first leaf of the volume"
[Giovanni Battista Audiffredi], ''Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi XV'' (1783), [https://books.google.com/books?id=lvwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA225  p. 225].
</ref> and the ablative ''{{Lang|la|rēctō}}'', ''{{Lang|la|versō}}'' already imply that the text on the page (and not the physical page itself) are referred to.