pervert

English edit

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Etymology edit

From Old French pervertir, itself from the Latin pervertō.

Pronunciation edit

(noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəː.vət/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɚ.vɚt/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)və(ɹ)t
(verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈvəːt/
  - Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈvɚt/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Noun edit

pervert (plural perverts)

(dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
Synonym: (slang) perv

Antonym: normophile

Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 24, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
  I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.

Usage notes edit

In contemporary usage, pervert is usually understood to refer to a sexually perverted person. Traditionally, the word was mainly associated with persons of false religious beliefs.

Derived terms edit

tervert

Translations edit

one who has turned to error

Chinese:
Mandarin: 墮落者／堕落者 (duòluòzhě)
Esperanto: perversulo, perversiulo, devojiĝanto
Finnish: pervertti
French: déviant (fr) m, pervers (fr) m
Japanese: 変質者 (へんしつしゃ, henshitsusha)
Latin: perversus m
Russian: дегенера́т (ru) m (degenerát)

sexually perverted person

Arabic: مُنْحَرِف m (munḥarif), مُنْحَرِفَة f (munḥarifa)
Armenian: ուրացող (hy) (uracʻoġ)
Belarusian: вычварэ́нец m (vyčvarénjec)
Bulgarian: извратеняк m (izvratenjak)
Burmese: နှာဘူး (hnabhu:)
Cebuano: manyak
Chinese:
Mandarin: 性變態者／性变态者 (xìngbiàntàizhě), 色狼 (zh) (sèláng)
Danish: perverst menneske
Dutch: perverseling
Esperanto: perversulo
Estonian: pervert (et)
Finnish: pervertti, pervo (fi) (colloquial)
French: pervers (fr) m
Georgian: გარყვნილი (garq̇vnili)
German: Perversling m
Greek: ανώμαλος (el) m (anómalos)
Hebrew: סוֹטֶה m (sote)
Icelandic: öfuguggi m, pervert m, perri m (colloquial)
Indonesian: cabul (id), mesum (id)
Italian: pervertito (it) m, pervertita (it) f
Japanese: 痴漢 (ja) (ちかん, chikan), 性的倒錯者 (せいてきとうさくしゃ, seitekitōsakusha), 変態 (ja) (へんたい, hentai)
Korean: 변태(變態) (ko) (byeontae)
Latin: obscēnus m, obscēna f
Lithuanian: iškrypėlis (lt) m, (milder) ištvirkėlis m
Macedonian: изопа́ченик m (izopáčenik), пе́рверзник m (pérverznik)
Polish: zboczeniec (pl) m (colloquial), dewiant (pl) m
Portuguese: pervertido (pt) m, tarado (pt) m
Russian: извраще́нец (ru) m (izvraščénec), перве́рт (ru) m (pervért), пе́рверт (ru) m (pérvert)
Spanish: pervertido (es) m
Tagalog: bastos, manyak, manyakis (slang)
Turkish: sapık (tr)
Ukrainian: збо́ченець m (zbóčenecʹ)
Welsh: gwyrdröwr

Verb edit

pervert (third-person singular simple present perverts, present participle perverting, simple past and past participle perverted)

(transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
Synonyms: divert, steer, veer
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline:
  Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
(transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
Synonyms: corrupt, lead astray

How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
  He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
- 1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page vi:
  He was a good Proteſtant, but when he fell into the Jeſuits hands, they ſoon perverted him, and made him embrace the Roman Catholick Religion […]
- 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:
  A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
Synonyms: misapply, misuse

He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain.
to misinterpret designedly.
Synonym: twist

pervert one's words
(intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
- c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
  After that worde, "better is it to dey than lyve false," and al wolde perverted people false reporte make

Translations edit

to turn another way

Bulgarian: отклонявам (bg) (otklonjavam)
Finnish: harhauttaa (fi)

to turn from truth

Bulgarian: изопачавам (bg) (izopačavam)
Finnish: johtaa harhaan
Icelandic: spilla (is)
Maori: whakapeau
Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق (bozmak)
Russian: извраща́ть (ru) impf (izvraščátʹ), изврати́ть (ru) pf (izvratítʹ)
Swedish: förvanska (sv), förvränga (sv)

to misuse

Bulgarian: използвам неправилно (izpolzvam nepravilno)
Icelandic: misnota

to misinterpret designedly

Finnish: vääristellä (fi)
Icelandic: rangfæra, rangsnúa, afbaka (is)
Russian: извраща́ть (ru) impf (izvraščátʹ), изврати́ть (ru) pf (izvratítʹ)
Swedish: förvränga (sv), förvanska (sv)
Ukrainian: спотво́рювати impf (spotvórjuvaty), спотво́рити pf (spotvóryty), перекру́чувати impf (perekrúčuvaty), перекрути́ти pf (perekrutýty), викривля́ти impf (vykryvljáty), ви́кривити pf (výkryvyty)

to take the wrong course

Bulgarian: извращавам (bg) (izvraštavam)
Finnish: harhautua (fi)
Polish: zboczyć (pl)

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Translations to be checked

Ido: ^{(please verify)} perversigar (io)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pervertir (es)

Related terms edit

Anagrams edit

prevert, vertrep

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From the Latin verb pervertere "to overturn" or "to subvert".

Noun edit

pervert f

a pervert

Synonyms edit

perri m
öfuguggi m