averto

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• IPA ^(key): /aˈver.to/

averto (plural averti )

1. warning

From ab- + vertō .

• (Classical Latin ) IPA ^(key): [aːˈwɛr.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^(key): [aˈvɛr.to]

āvertō (present infinitive āvertere , perfect active āvertī , supine āversum ); third conjugation

1. to turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate

   Synonyms: dēvertō , prōpulsō , dīvertō , dēclīnō , dēflectō , āspernor , flectō , dēmoveō , āvocō , trānsvertō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE , Vergilius, Aeneis 1.104–105:

     Franguntur rēmī, tum prōra āvertit et undīs
     dat latus, īnsequitur cumulō praeruptus aquae mōns.

     The oars shatter, then the prow turns away and gives the side [of the ship] to the waves, [and] next comes in a heap a towering mountain of water.
     (The description of Aeneas’s ship in the storm exemplifies hyperbole.)

2. to remove

   Synonyms: dēmō , rapiō , auferō , dīripiō , āmoveō , dēmoveō , removeō , adimō , exhauriō , ēripiō , corripiō , praedor , abdō , legō , eximō

3. to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneself

   Synonyms: fraudō , tollō , adimō , auferō , agō , ēripiō , dīripiō , abdūcō , rapiō , āmoveō , corripiō

4. to put to flight

   Synonym: fugō

• → English: avert
• → Italian: avertere

• "averto", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "averto", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• averto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• "averto", in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1] , London: Macmillan and Co.
  • and may heaven avert the omen! heaven preserve us from this: quod di immortales omen avertant! (Phil. 44. 11)
    
  • to embezzle money: avertere pecuniam (Verr. 2. 1. 4)
    
  • to deviate, change the direction: iter flectere, convertere, avertere
    

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