1. con-verto — Lewis & Short
whirl round, to wheel about, to cause to turn, to turn back, reverse
The corpus record — Latin
converto
converto · v. a
whirl round, to wheel about, to cause to turn, to turn back, reverse
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 17s 1 · 83.33/10k
- Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
- De Optimo Genere Oratorum 2 · 12.63/10k
- De Carne Christi 8 · 8.42/10k
- Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
- De Fato 4 · 8.07/10k
- Historiae 3 · 7.39/10k
- Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
- Timaeus 3 · 7.11/10k
- Hamartigenia 4 · 6.26/10k
Densest 12 of 156 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
2. convertö — Walde–Hofmann
&, -rsum, -ere „wende um, kehre* (seit Plaut): u
Attestations
- Convertuntur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.7.10
- convertuntur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.4.14
- converti Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.1.10
- convertit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.9.5
- convertit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.5.11
- convertisset Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.10.18
6 of 593 attestations shown.
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