Where does “pervertire” come from?

pervertire (Italian) comes from Romanian perverti, from French pervertir, from Latin pervertere, from Latin vertere, from Latin verto, from Proto-Italic wertō, from Proto-Indo-European wert-, from Proto-Indo-European wer- — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.

pervertire (Italian): to pervert, to corrupt

Definitions

  1. to pervert, to corrupt

Ancestry of “pervertire”, step by step

pervertire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Romanian perverti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianpervertito pervert
2Frenchpervertirto worsen; to corrupt
3Latinperverterethird-person plural perfect active indicative of...
4Latinvertereinflection of vertō: ## third-person plural...
5LatinvertoI turn, revolve; I turn around; I reverse
6Proto-Italicwertōto turn
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwert-to turn, to rotate
8Proto-Indo-Europeanwer-to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel

via Latin perverto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinpervertoI overthrow; I subvert or corrupt
2Latinvertōto turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwēr-true

Words derived from “pervertire”

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