averta
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ορτή (aortḗ, “knapsack”). Influence from āvertō (“to turn something away”) is possible but doesn't need to be assumed, as the phonetic development would be regular any way. Attested from ~ 4th cent. CE.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈu̯er.ta/, [äˈu̯ɛrt̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈver.ta/, [äˈvɛrt̪ä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | averta | avertae |
| Genitive | avertae | avertārum |
| Dative | avertae | avertīs |
| Accusative | avertam | avertās |
| Ablative | avertā | avertīs |
| Vocative | averta | avertae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: ἀβέρτα (abérta)
- ⇒ Sardinian: bertula
- Sicilian: vèrtula (from *averta + -ula)
References
- “averta” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Further reading
- “averta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- averta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- averta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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