eversio Latin · revision 33154

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *wert-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēversiō''' ''f'' (genitive ēversiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēvertō|-tiō|t1=to overturn, destroy]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is [[m|la|ē-]] added to [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]], which Wiktionary traces to [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Cicero,^(TLL) who in the first ''Philippic'' has the overturning of an accursed column,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in the speech on the soothsayers' reply the burning and destruction brought on his house and lands.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL notes that it is used from Cicero and the younger Seneca onwards but is missing altogether in the poets, since it does not fit their metre.^(TLL) It is an overturning, as Pliny the Elder has of the upsetting of carriages,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and above all a destructive overthrow, of temples in Quintilian and of a city in Florus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Florus also uses it of the eviction of those holding land.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives “overthrow, destruction, disruption, subverting”.^(Stelten 1995) In Christian and Medieval Latin it is moral disorder, apostasy, schism or heresy, and the refutation of an argument.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of overturning a column and of destruction.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of overturned carriages.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of the destruction of temples.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An overturning, upsetting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An [[m|en|expulsion]], turning out.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|destruction|alt=Destruction]], [[m|en|overthrow]], subversion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical and Medieval Latin)'' Moral disorder; [[m|en|apostasy]], schism, heresy; refutation.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēvertō]]

+ * [[vertō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}