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aversa

aversa is a Latin form of averto, meaning “turn away, avert; divert; drive off, rout”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.34: … um ei occasio visa est,—cognoscite hominis principium magistratuum gerendorum et rei publicae administrandae,—aversa pecunia publica quaestor consulem, exercitum, sortem, provinciamque deseruit.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.799: dicitur. Aversa est et castos aegide vultus

Tibullus, Elegiae 3.3.28: audiat auersa non meus aure deus,

All forms of averto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.