obverto Latin · revision 32871

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''obvertō''' (present infinitive obvertere, perfect active obvertī, supine obversum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Marius Victorinus records the spelling ''ovvertō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ob-|vertō|t2=to turn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[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 TLL dates it from Plautus, who has it twice.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short quote him of turning one's horns towards someone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to turn something so that it faces a certain way: Lucretius has a mirror turned in any direction, and the ''Bellum Africum'' soldiers who face about to resist the enemy.^(OLD 2012) Cicero's ''Aratea'' uses it of sailors turning a ship out to sea.^(OLD 2012) It is also to turn weapons or troops against someone, as in Livy, and to turn oneself or one's mind to something, as Ovid of a cruel mind.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that neither Cicero's speeches and letters nor Caesar use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ancient glosses explain it as turning to another side.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of turning the horns towards someone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a mirror.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of turning weapons against the enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of turning one's mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn something so as to face a certain way; in the passive, to turn oneself, face about; of sailors, to turn out to sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To turn weapons or troops against someone; in the passive, to [[m|en|oppose]] oneself to.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To turn oneself or one's mind to something.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[verto|alt=vertō]]

+ * [[obversus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}