aversor Latin · revision 32082

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la vertō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aːˈwɛr.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈvɛr.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''āversor''' (present infinitive āversārī, perfect active āversātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the old spelling ''avorsor''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a frequentative [[af|la|āvertō|-tō|t1=to turn away]], formed on the participle ⟨āvers-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|āvertō]] is [[m|la|ab-]] with [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it intransitively, “stay where you are, don't turn away”, and Ennius in the ''Annals'' transitively, of people who will always turn away from someone's face.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to turn away in disgust, horror or shame, as Cicero's guilty man who hesitates, turns away and blushes, and so to recoil from or shun a person or sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With actions as object it means to feel aversion for, as Ovid's “I loathe her character, I love her body”, and with an infinitive to refuse to do something.^(OLD 2012) It also means to refuse to accept, reject, as Livy's people who rejected prayers out of shame or fear.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to turn away from, avoid, repel, hate.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of turning away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of turning away from someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a man who turns away and blushes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of rejecting prayers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn away in disgust or horror, [[m|en|recoil]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To turn away from, [[m|en|shun]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To feel or express [[m|en|aversion]] for; to refuse to do something.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To refuse to accept, [[m|en|reject]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[āversābilis]]

+ * [[āversātiō]]

+ * [[āversātrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[āversiō]]

+ * [[āversus]]

+ * [[āvertō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate noun ''āversor'', ''āversōris'', an [[m|en|embezzler]], also from ''āvertō'', occurs in Cicero's ''Verrines'', where Verres is the embezzler of public money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}