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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

  1. swept or cleaned out
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of ēvertō.

Participle

ēversus (feminine ēversa, neuter ēversum); first/second-declension participle

  1. 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”.)
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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