eversus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Perfect passive participle of ēverrō.
Participle[edit]
ēversus (feminine ēversa, neuter ēversum); first/second-declension participle
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ēversus | ēversa | ēversum | ēversī | ēversae | ēversa | |
| Genitive | ēversī | ēversae | ēversī | ēversōrum | ēversārum | ēversōrum | |
| Dative | ēversō | ēversō | ēversīs | ||||
| Accusative | ēversum | ēversam | ēversum | ēversōs | ēversās | ēversa | |
| Ablative | ēversō | ēversā | ēversō | ēversīs | |||
| Vocative | ēverse | ēversa | ēversum | ēversī | ēversae | ēversa | |
Etymology 2[edit]
Perfect passive participle of ēvertō.
Participle[edit]
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[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ēversus | ēversa | ēversum | ēversī | ēversae | ēversa | |
| Genitive | ēversī | ēversae | ēversī | ēversōrum | ēversārum | ēversōrum | |
| Dative | ēversō | ēversō | ēversīs | ||||
| Accusative | ēversum | ēversam | ēversum | ēversōs | ēversās | ēversa | |
| Ablative | ēversō | ēversā | ēversō | ēversīs | |||
| Vocative | ēverse | ēversa | ēversum | ēversī | ēversae | ēversa | |
References[edit]
- “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.