Latin

Verb

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

1. I turn away
2. I avert; I avoid
3. I divert

Inflection

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “averto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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