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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + flectō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dēflectō (present infinitive dēflectere, perfect active dēflexī, supine dēflexum); third conjugation
- to bend or turn downwards or away; to deflect
- Synonyms: arceō, prōpulsō, dīvertō, dēclīnō, āvertō, āspernor, dēmoveō, flectō, trānsvertō
- to digress
Conjugation
References
- “deflecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deflecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deflecto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn aside from the right way; to deviate: de via declinare, deflectere (also metaphorically)
- to swerve from the truth: a veritate deflectere, desciscere
- to digress from the point at issue: a proposito aberrare, declinare, deflectere, digredi, egredi
- to deteriorate: a maiorum virtute desciscere, degenerare, deflectere
- to give up old customs: a pristina consuetudine deflectere
Spanish
Verb
deflecto
- first-person singular present indicative of deflectar