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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ορτή (aortḗ, “knapsack”). Attested from ca. 4th century CE.
Either influenced by āvertō (“to turn something away”) or borrowed early enough (despite the late attestation), and through a Greek dialect preserving /w/, to participate in the early Latin sound change /wo/> /we/.
Pronunciation
Noun
averta f (genitive avertae); first declension
- portmanteau, saddlebag(s)
- Synonyms: pēra, mantica, saccus
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
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.