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vertunt

vertunt is a Latin form of verto, meaning “turn, change”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.88.3: Repente post tergum equitatus cernitur; cohortes aliae appropinquant. Hostes terga vertunt; fugientibus equites occurrunt. Fit magna caedes. Sedulius, dux et princeps Lemovicum, occiditur;

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.14.9: … rculsi Fidenates prius paene, quam Romulus quique <auehi> cum eo uisi erant circumagerent frenis equos, terga uertunt;

All forms of verto (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.