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• IPA^(key): /konˈvɛr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛrto
• Hyphenation: con‧vèr‧to

converto

1. first-person singular present indicative of convertire

• convortō

From Proto-Italic *komwertō. By surface analysis, con- +‎ vertō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈwɛr.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈvɛr.to]

convertō (present infinitive convertere, perfect active convertī, supine conversum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to turn upside-down; to invert
2. (transitive) to turn over (soil etc)
3. (transitive) to turn back or recoil
4. (intransitive) to direct oneself
5. (transitive) to rotate
6. (transitive) to reverse
7. (transferred) to reverse or to turn as in to convert, change, alter

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 670–672:

     DĀVUS: Hāc nōn successit; alia aggrediēmur via. / Nīsī id putās, quia prīmō prōcessit parum, / nōn posse iam ad salūtem convertī hoc malum.

     DAVUS: This didn’t succeed; we’ll try another way. Unless you think that because at first it made so little progress, this bad situation cannot now be turned to a favorable outcome.

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:6

     memorans illum sermonem quem dixit Dominus per Amos prophetam dies festi vestri convertentur in lamentationem et luctum (Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

8. (transitive) to translate

• “converto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “converto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “converto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
    
  • to attract universal attention: omnium animos or mentes in se convertere
    
  • to take one's directions from another; to obey him in everything: se convertere, converti ad alicuius nutum
    
  • to make a joke of a thing: aliquid ad ridiculum convertere
    
  • to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre
    
  • to translate Plato: Platonem vertere, convertere
    
  • to translate from Plato: ab or de (not ex) Platone vertere, convertere, transferre
    
  • to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    
  • to incur a person's hatred: alicuius odium subire, suscipere, in se convertere, sibi conflare
    
  • to deviate, change the direction: iter flectere, convertere, avertere
    
  • to deviate, change the direction: signa convertere (B. G. 1. 25)
    
• converto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

converto

1. first-person singular present indicative of converter