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revertor
revertor
Latin
Alternative forms
- revertō, revortō, revortor
Verb
revertor (present infinitive revertī, perfect active reversus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- I return
- I turn back, turn around
Conjugation
| Conjugation of revertor (third conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | revertor | reverteris, revertere | revertitur | revertimur | revertiminī | revertuntur |
| imperfect | revertēbar | revertēbāris, revertēbāre | revertēbātur | revertēbāmur | revertēbāminī | revertēbantur | |
| future | revertar | revertēris, revertēre | revertētur | revertēmur | revertēminī | revertentur | |
| perfect | reversus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | reversus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | reversus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | revertar | revertāris, revertāre | revertātur | revertāmur | revertāminī | revertantur |
| imperfect | reverterer | reverterēris, reverterēre | reverterētur | reverterēmur | reverterēminī | reverterentur | |
| perfect | reversus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | reversus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | revertere | — | — | revertiminī | — |
| future | — | revertitor | revertitor | — | — | revertuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | revertī | reversus esse | reversūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | revertēns | reversus | reversūrus | — | — | revertendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| revertī | revertendī | revertendō | revertendum | reversum | reversū | ||
Descendants
- English: reverse, revert
- French: reverser
- Italian: riversare, rovesciare
- Old French: revertir
- Spanish: revertir
References
- revertor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “revertor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to come back to the point: ad propositum reverti, redire
- but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
- but to return from the digression we have been making: verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur
- to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad sanitatem reverti, redire
- to come back to the point: ad propositum reverti, redire