converterat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →converto, convertere, converti, conversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn upside down/side-to-side; invert/transpose/convulse; turn over (soil)/dig;; turn backwards, recoil; retort; drive back, repulse; direct (course/attention);; translate; modify, adapt; change/alter/transform; convert (to cash), pay over;; cause to turn/revolve, rotate; turn/wheel about; reverse; shift/transfer;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...comisque cervicum fluctuantibus animos oculosque omnium in sese converterat. Introductus erat inter compluris ceteros ad pugnam bestiarum datus..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...itinere Asiae Syriaeque ad suam potentiam dominatumque converterat, rem ad arma deduci studebat. His de causis aguntur omnia..." - G
de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...congrediendum progressus. Quoniam ferocitas Antistii omnium mentes converterat ab opere ad spectandum, acies sunt dispositae. Nam inter bellatores..."