averto

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈver.to/

Noun

averto (plural averti)

1. warning

Latin

Etymology

From ab- +‎ vertō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aːˈu̯er.toː/, [äːˈu̯ɛrt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈver.to/, [äˈvɛrt̪o]

Verb

āvertō (present infinitive āvertere, perfect active āvertī, supine āversum); third conjugation

1. to turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate

   Synonyms: dēvertō, prōpulsō, dīvertō, dēclīnō, dēflectō, āspernor, flectō, dēmoveō, āvocō, trānsvertō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.104–105:

     Franguntur rēmī, tum prōra āvertit et undīs
     dat latus, īnsequitur cumulō praeruptus aquae mōns.

     The oars shatter, then the prow turns away and gives the side [of the ship] to the waves, [and] next comes in a heap a towering mountain of water.
     (The description of Aeneas’s ship in the storm exemplifies hyperbole.)

2. to remove

   Synonyms: dēmō, rapiō, auferō, dīripiō, āmoveō, dēmoveō, removeō, adimō, exhauriō, ēripiō, corripiō, praedor, abdō, legō, eximō

3. to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneself

   Synonyms: fraudō, tollō, adimō, auferō, agō, ēripiō, dīripiō, abdūcō, rapiō, āmoveō, corripiō

4. to put to flight

   Synonym: fugō

Conjugation

Conjugation of āvertō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	āvertō	āvertis	āvertit	āvertimus	āvertitis	āvertunt
	imperfect	āvertēbam	āvertēbās	āvertēbat	āvertēbāmus	āvertēbātis	āvertēbant
	future	āvertam	āvertēs	āvertet	āvertēmus	āvertētis	āvertent
	perfect	āvertī	āvertistī	āvertit	āvertimus	āvertistis	āvertērunt, āvertēre
	pluperfect	āverteram	āverterās	āverterat	āverterāmus	āverterātis	āverterant
	future perfect	āverterō	āverteris	āverterit	āverterimus	āverteritis	āverterint
passive	present	āvertor	āverteris, āvertere	āvertitur	āvertimur	āvertiminī	āvertuntur
	imperfect	āvertēbar	āvertēbāris, āvertēbāre	āvertēbātur	āvertēbāmur	āvertēbāminī	āvertēbantur
	future	āvertar	āvertēris, āvertēre	āvertētur	āvertēmur	āvertēminī	āvertentur
	perfect	āversus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	āversus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	āversus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	āvertam	āvertās	āvertat	āvertāmus	āvertātis	āvertant
	imperfect	āverterem	āverterēs	āverteret	āverterēmus	āverterētis	āverterent
	perfect	āverterim	āverterīs	āverterit	āverterīmus	āverterītis	āverterint
	pluperfect	āvertissem	āvertissēs	āvertisset	āvertissēmus	āvertissētis	āvertissent
passive	present	āvertar	āvertāris, āvertāre	āvertātur	āvertāmur	āvertāminī	āvertantur
	imperfect	āverterer	āverterēris, āverterēre	āverterētur	āverterēmur	āverterēminī	āverterentur
	perfect	āversus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	āversus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	āverte	—	—	āvertite	—
	future	—	āvertitō	āvertitō	—	āvertitōte	āvertuntō
passive	present	—	āvertere	—	—	āvertiminī	—
	future	—	āvertitor	āvertitor	—	—	āvertuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		āvertere	āvertisse	āversūrum esse	āvertī	āversum esse	āversum īrī
participles		āvertēns	—	āversūrus	—	āversus	āvertendus, āvertundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		āvertendī	āvertendō	āvertendum	āvertendō	āversum	āversū

Descendants

• English: avert

References

• “averto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “averto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• averto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• averto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • and may heaven avert the omen! heaven preserve us from this: quod di immortales omen avertant! (Phil. 44. 11)
    
  • to embezzle money: avertere pecuniam (Verr. 2. 1. 4)
    
  • to deviate, change the direction: iter flectere, convertere, avertere