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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + vertō (“turn”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ēvertō (present infinitive ēvertere, perfect active ēvertī, supine ēversum); third conjugation
- to turn upside down, overturn, reverse
- (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
- to throw down, cause to fall
- to destroy, ruin, subvert
- (by extension, of political structures and institutions) to overthrow, overturn, upset
- Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, pervertō, sternō, prōsternō, dēturbō, afflīgō, fundō, versō, vertō, dissipō
- to drive out, expel
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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, 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.