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conversa

conversa is a Latin form of converto, meaning “turn around, turn; change, transform; direct”. 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 ablative singular feminine.

Found 92 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.25.7: Romani [conversa] signa bipertito intulerunt: prima et secunda acies, ut victis ac submotis resisteret, tertia, ut venientes sustineret.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 78: … trahunt: ita facies locorum cum ventis simul mutatur. Syrtes ab tractu nominatae. Eius civitatis lingua modo conuersa conubio Numidarum, legum cultusque pleraque Sidonica; quae eo facilius retinebant, quod procul ab imperio reg …

Nepos, Atticus 10: Conversa subito fortuna est. ut Antonius rediit in Italiam, nemo non magno in periculo Atticum putarat propter intimam …

All forms of converto (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.