perverto

Italian

Verb

perverto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pervertire

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

per- (thoroughly) +‎ vertō (I turn)

Pronunciation

Verb

pervertō (present infinitive pervertere, perfect active pervertī, supine perversum); third conjugation

  1. to overthrow
    Synonyms: prōflīgō, impellō, subvertō, ēvertō, sternō, prōsternō, fundō, dēturbō, afflīgō, versō, vertō, dissipō
  2. to subvert or corrupt

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Catalan: pervertir
  • French: pervertir
  • Galician: perverter
  • Italian: pervertire
  • Occitan: pervertir
  • Portuguese: perverter
  • Spanish: pervertir

References

  • perverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • perverto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • perverto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to trample all law under foot: omnia iura pervertere

Portuguese

Verb

perverto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of perverter