revertor
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈu̯er.tor/, [reˈu̯ɛrt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈver.tor/, [reˈvɛrt̪or]
Verb edit
revertor (present infinitive revertī, perfect active reversus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to return
- to turn back, turn around
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References edit
- “revertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- revertor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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