eversor Latin · revision 34271

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la vertō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēversor''' ''m'' (genitive ēversōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēvertō|-tor|t1=to overturn, destroy]], from its supine stem.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|ex-|t=out of]] and [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL record it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who speaks of an ''eversor civitatis'', a destroyer of the state, and of an ''eversor huius imperii''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It names someone who destroys or overthrows something.^(OLD 2012) Virgil calls Achilles ''Priami regnorum eversor'', the destroyer of Priam's kingdom, and Quintilian has ''eversor Carthaginis et Numantiae''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Silius Italicus uses it of a comet foretelling the fall of kingdoms, and Pliny the Elder has ''eversor iuris humani''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Codex Theodosianus an ''eversor pecuniae'' is one who squanders money.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) The TLL also records it from Tertullian, both of one who throws down and of one who leads astray.^(TLL) Medieval senses include a bandit, a spendthrift and a seducer;^(Niermeyer 1976) in Britain Bede uses it of an assailant who destroys the citadel of the mind, and the ''Leges Henrici'' of a breaker of the written law.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a destroyer of the state.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil calls Achilles the destroyer of Priam's kingdom.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian has ''eversor Carthaginis et Numantiae''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 438 AD – The Codex Theodosianus uses it of a squanderer of money.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|destroyer]], one who overturns or [[m|en|subvert|alt=subverts]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|squanderer]] of money.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' One who leads astray, a [[m|en|seducer]].^(TLL)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|bandit]]; a [[m|en|spendthrift]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēversiō]]

+ * [[ēvertō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}