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eversus
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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of ēverrō.
Participle
ēversus (feminine ēversa, neuter ēversum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle of ēvertō.
Participle
ēversus (feminine ēversa, neuter ēversum); first/second-declension participle
- overturned, turned upside down, upset, overthrown, ruined; having overturned, having been overturned, etc.
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.571–573:
- “Illa sibi īnfēstōs ēversa ob Pergama Teucrōs
et poenās Danaum et dēsertī coniugis īrās
praemetuēns [...].”- “That [woman, Helen,] fearing Trojan hostility towards herself [now that] the citadel of Troy had been overthrown, and the vengeance of the Greeks, and the wrath of her abandoned husband [...].”
(Epithets – Teucros: “Trojans”; Pergama: “the fortified citadel of Troy”; Danaum is a syncopation of Dana(or)um: “of the Greeks”.)
- “That [woman, Helen,] fearing Trojan hostility towards herself [now that] the citadel of Troy had been overthrown, and the vengeance of the Greeks, and the wrath of her abandoned husband [...].”
- “Illa sibi īnfēstōs ēversa ob Pergama Teucrōs
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “eversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “eversus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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