deverto Latin · revision 9795

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wert-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [deːˈwɛr.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [deˈvɛr.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēvertō''' (present infinitive dēvertere, perfect active dēvertī, supine dēversum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''dēvortō'', apparently usual in Plautus and Terence; it is often confused with ''dīvertō'' in the manuscripts.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|vertō|t1=away|t2=to turn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨vertō⟩ is from [[itc-pro|*wertō]], from [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus and Cato, of turning off the road to lodge.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main use was intransitive: to turn off the road to lodge, put up at an inn or with someone, as in Plautus, Terence and Cicero; and to turn aside, make a detour, or figuratively turn to something, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively it meant to turn away, divert, as in Lucan's ''fāta suō cursū dēvertere'' “to turn the fates from their course” and Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to lodge, resort to, turn aside.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of lodging.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a detour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of diverting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn away, [[m|en|divert]], (passive) to turn aside.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To turn aside, make a [[m|en|detour]]; to turn (to something).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To turn off the road to [[m|en|lodge]], put up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēversor]]

+ * [[dēversus]]

+ * [[dēverticulum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vertō]]

+ * [[dīvertō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}