revertor Latin · revision 17984

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wert-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈwɛr.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈvɛr.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''revertor''' (present infinitive revertī, perfect active reversus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ It is usually deponent in the present system and active in the perfect (''revertī''); the deponent perfect ''reversus sum'' is mostly post-Augustan, and an active present ''revertō'' is also found.^(OLD 2012)

+ An older spelling is ''revortor''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|re-|vertō|t1=back|t2=to turn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|vertō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*wertō]] and [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus: ''revertāmur intrō, soror'', “let us go back inside, sister”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Revertī'' is “to turn back, return, come back” home or to where one started, and of things “to move back” (Lucretius).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It is “to return to a subject” after a digression (Plautus: ''revertar ad illam puellam expositīciam'', “I will go back to that foundling girl”), “to have recourse to” someone or something, and “to revert” to a former practice.^(OLD 2012) Of seasons, fevers and events it is “to come round again” (Cicero: ''nec praeteritum tempus umquam revertitur'', “time past never returns”), and it also means “to relate back” to a source.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “turn back, return, turn about, revert”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|revert]] (c. 1300) comes from it through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''revertāmur intrō, soror'';^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) ''revertar ad illam puellam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of things moving back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''nec praeteritum tempus umquam revertitur''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English [[m|en|revert]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn back, [[m|en|return]], come back.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To move back (of things).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To return (to a subject).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To have recourse (to); to [[m|en|revert]] (to a former practice).^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To come round again, recur.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To relate back (to a source).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vertō]]

+ * [[reditus]]

+ * [[en|revert]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}