aversus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →averro, averrere, averri, aversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sweep/brush away, take away, clear away (table);; turn away from/aside, divert, rout; disturb; withdraw; steal, misappropriate;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →aversus, aversa -um, aversior -or -us, aversissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turned/facing away, w/back turned; behind, in rear; distant; averse; hostile;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...propter aliquod commodum a causa quam nos susceperimus aversus, ut persuadendi ardua est ratio, ita dicendi expeditissima: fiducia..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...iuvent, magnas opes sibi magnumque nomen facere". XXXVIII. Aversus quoque a iudice sermo, qui dicitur apostrophe, mire movet..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...denique ipsos, superiorum testes nuptiarum?" CVI. Sermo vero aversus a iudice et brevius indicat interim et coarguit magis..." - P
Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poeni, nec tam aversus equos Tyria Sol iungit ab urbe. Seu vos Hesperiam magnam..." - M
In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...collocaretur. [21] Hic quis potest esse, Quirites, tam aversus a vero, tam praeceps, tam mente captus, qui neget..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...modo, spectabat ad Io, ante oculos Io, quamvis aversus, habebat. luce sinit pasci; cum sol tellure sub alta..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...modo, spectabat ad Io, ante oculos Io, quamvis aversus, habebat. luce sinit pasci; cum sol tellure sub alta..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...scalpra et formas non sutor, nautica vela aversus mercaturis: delirus et amens undique dicatur merito. qui discrepat istis..."