converterer
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. imperf. subj. 1st - 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. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...mores et emolumenta philosophiae in linguae verborumque artes converterent et vitia facundissime accusarent intercutibus ipsi vitiis madentes..." - T
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..." - T
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..." - T
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..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...possumus tumore taeterrimo implere numquid et crines calamistro convertere? Numquid et frontes cicatricibus scindere? Numquid et crura..." - G
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...latius et uberius explicare consuerant; interdum Graecorum scripta convertere, ac illustres laudare vel vituperare; quaedam etiam ad usum..." - M
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..." - T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quid per iocum dixi, nolito in serium convertere. ANTER. Qui tibi lubido est, opsecro, Antamonides, loqui inclementer nostro..."
