converto
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛrto
Latin
Alternative forms
- convortō
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈwer.toː/, [kɔnˈwɛr.toː]
Verb
convertō (present infinitive convertere, perfect active convertī, supine conversum); third conjugation
Conjugation
Descendants
- Dutch: converteren
- English: convert
- French: convertir
- German: konvertieren
- Spanish: convertir
- Italian: convertire, convergere
- Portuguese: converter
References
- converto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- converto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- converto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
- to attract universal attention: omnium animos or mentes in se convertere
- to take one's directions from another; to obey him in everything: se convertere, converti ad alicuius nutum
- to make a joke of a thing: aliquid ad ridiculum convertere
- to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre
- to translate Plato: Platonem vertere, convertere
- to translate from Plato: ab or de (not ex) Platone vertere, convertere, transferre
- to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
- to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
- to deviate, change the direction: iter flectere, convertere, avertere
- to deviate, change the direction: signa convertere (B. G. 1. 25)
- to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
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