averta
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ορτή (aortḗ, “knapsack”). Influence from āvertō (“to turn something away”) is possible but doesn't need to be assumed, as the phonetic development would be regular any way. Attested from ~ 4th cent. CE.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈu̯er.ta/, [äˈu̯ɛrt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈver.ta/, [äˈvɛrt̪ä]
Noun
averta f (genitive avertae); first declension
- portmanteau, saddlebag(s)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | averta | avertae |
Genitive | avertae | avertārum |
Dative | avertae | avertīs |
Accusative | avertam | avertās |
Ablative | avertā | avertīs |
Vocative | averta | avertae |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “averta” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Further reading
- “averta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- averta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- averta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.