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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈvɛr.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛrto
- Hyphenation: di‧vèr‧to
Verb
diverto
- first-person singular present indicative of divertire
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + vertō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dīvertō (present infinitive dīvertere, perfect active dīvertī, supine dīversum); third conjugation
- to separate
- Synonyms: sēgregō, sēparō, sēcernō, findō, dirimō, exclūdō, dīvidō, intersaepiō, distinguō, discrībō
- to divert or turn away
- Synonyms: arceō, prōpulsō, āvertō, dēclīnō, dēflectō, flectō, āspernor, dēmoveō, trānsvertō, dēvertō, āvocō
- to digress
- Synonym: dēvertō
- to oppose
- Synonyms: oppōnō, adversor, obversor, refrāgor, repugnō, recūsō, restō, resistō, officiō, resistō, subsistō, vetō, obstō
- to divorce
- (figurative) to visit, live, spend time
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References
- “diverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diverto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.