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Sorry, but I don't have a NFL rulebook.
However, the only thing that matters is the initial direction of the pass.
If it's backwards or parallel to the goal line, then it's a backwards pass.
If you underhand a football backwards out of the bed of a moving pickup truck, do you think the ball will land behind or beyond the spot where it was released?
Obviously, it will land beyond where it was released.
But it was passed backwards.
The pass was from a player in front to a player behind him.
It was a backwards pass.
BTW, there's no such thing as a lateral.
A pass is either a backwards pass or a forward pass.
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