adversus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of advertō (“I turn toward”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /adˈu̯er.sus/, [äd̪ˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /adˈver.sus/, [äd̪ˈvɛrsus]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Participle
adversus (feminine adversa, neuter adversum, superlative adversissimus); first/second-declension participle
- set opposite, adverse, having been set against.
- turned toward, having been turned toward.
- hostile
- 98 AD, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, De origine et situ Germanorum, capitulum II:
- …et inmensus ultra utque sic dixerim adversus Oceanus raris ab orbe nostro navibus aditur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 98 AD, Publius Cornelius Tacitus, De origine et situ Germanorum, capitulum II:
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | adversus | adversa | adversum | adversī | adversae | adversa | |
Genitive | adversī | adversae | adversī | adversōrum | adversārum | adversōrum | |
Dative | adversō | adversō | adversīs | ||||
Accusative | adversum | adversam | adversum | adversōs | adversās | adversa | |
Ablative | adversō | adversā | adversō | adversīs | |||
Vocative | adverse | adversa | adversum | adversī | adversae | adversa |
Descendants
- English: adverse
- French: adverse, avers
- Portuguese: adverso, adversa
- Spanish: adverso, adversa
- Italian: avverso, avversa
References
- “adversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adversus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- adversus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- misfortune, adversity: res adversae, afflictae, perditae
- (ambiguous) against the stream; upstream: flumine adverso
- (ambiguous) to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
- (ambiguous) misfortune, adversity: fortuna adversa
- (ambiguous) to struggle with adversity: conflictari (cum) adversa fortuna
- (ambiguous) to attack the enemy in the front: adversis hostibus occurrere
- (ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)
- (ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera adverso corpore accepta
- misfortune, adversity: res adversae, afflictae, perditae