everto

everto

Latin

Etymology

    From ex- (out of) + vertō (turn).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    ēvertō (present infinitive ēvertere, perfect active ēvertī, supine ēversum); third conjugation

    1. to turn upside down, overturn, reverse
    2. (rare) to upset, disturb, agitate, roil
      Synonyms: turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, agitō, angō, disturbō, peragō, fatīgō, irrītō, percieō, concieō, cieō, īnfestō, stimulō, occīdō, concitō, agō, moveō, versō, ūrō
      Antonym: cōnsōlor
    3. to throw down, cause to fall
    4. to destroy, ruin, subvert
      1. (by extension, of political structures and institutions) to overthrow, overturn, upset
      Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, pervertō, sternō, prōsternō, dēturbō, afflīgō, fundō, versō, vertō, dissipō
    5. to drive out, expel

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • English: evert
    • Portuguese: everter

    References

    • everto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • everto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • everto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to upset the whole system: totam rationem evertere (pass. iacet tota ratio)
      • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
      • to completely overthrow the government, the state: rem publicam funditus evertere
      • to completely destroy a town: oppidum evertere, excīdere
    • Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.