convertere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →convertor, converti, conversus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Medieval
convert; change, alter; refresh; turn;
sg. pres. imp. 2ndsg. fut. ind. 2ndsg. pres. ind. 2nd - 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. pres. pass. imp. 2ndpl. perf. act. ind. 3rdsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...mores et emolumenta philosophiae in linguae verborumque artes converterent et vitia facundissime accusarent intercutibus ipsi vitiis madentes..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...radiis percussa nitere inque dies magis [id] lumen convertere nobis ad speciem, quantum solis secedit ab orbi, donique..."Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...tantum corpus corpuscula possunt contorquere et onus totum convertere nostrum; quippe etenim ventus subtili corpore tenvis trudit agens..."Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...potis est moderanter habenas, quis pariter caelos omnis convertere et omnis ignibus aetheriis terras suffire feracis, omnibus inve..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...possumus tumore taeterrimo implere numquid et crines calamistro convertere? Numquid et frontes cicatricibus scindere? Numquid et crura..."De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...latius et uberius explicare consuerant; interdum Graecorum scripta convertere, ac illustres laudare vel vituperare; quaedam etiam ad usum..."Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere. III. Longius tendit hoc iudicium meum. Neque enim tantum..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quid per iocum dixi, nolito in serium convertere. ANTER. Qui tibi lubido est, opsecro, Antamonides, loqui inclementer nostro..."
