Latin

Verb

ēvertō ‎(present infinitive ēvertere, perfect active ēvertī, supine ēversum); third conjugation

1. I turn upside down, overturn, reverse.
2. (rare) I upset, disturb, agitate, roil.
3. I throw down, cause to fall.
4. I destroy, ruin, subvert.
   1. (by extension, of political structures and institutions) I overthrow, overturn, upset.
5. I drive out, expel.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ēversiō
• ēversor
• ēversus

References

• everto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• everto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “everto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to upset the whole system: totam rationem evertere (pass. iacet tota ratio)
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
    
  • to completely overthrow the government, the state: rem publicam funditus evertere
    
  • to completely destroy a town: oppidum evertere, excīdere
    
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.