Proto-Italic
*wertō
‘to turn’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *wertō.
79 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *wertō, most familiar first.
- university ← universite ← université ← universitei ← universitas
- version ← versiō ← vertō
- conversation ← conversacioun ← conversacion ← conversātiōnem ← conversātiō
- divorce ← dīvortium ← dīvertere ← vertō
- diversity ← diversite ← diversité ← dīversitās ← dīversus
- versus ← vertō
- diverse ← divers ← divers ← dīversus ← dīvertō
- verse ← vers ← fers ← versus ← vertō
- vertical ← verticālis ← vertex ← vertō
- adverse ← avers ← adversus ← vertō
- advertisement ← advertissement ← advertir ← avertir ← advertō
- versatile ← versātilis ← versātus ← versō ← vertō
More words from *wertō
- convertible
- diversion
- vortex
- advert
- divert
- inverse
- adversity
- revert
- pervert
- transverse
- inversion
- aversion
- diversification
- vertex
- perverse
- vertigo
- avert
- averse
- vert
- vertebrate
- subvert
- introvert
- perversion
- vertebra
- verso
- reversion
- evert
- perversity
- extraversion
- vertiginous
- suzerain
- diverticulum
- divertimento
- extravert
- inversus
- versant
- controvert
- advertent
- adversaria
- adversant
- adversion
- antevert
- avertissement
- aversio
- circumvert
- diversificate
- diversiform
- diversory
- diverticle
- eversive
- gwerz
- otrovert
- revertible
- renversement
- revertent
- retrovert
- transvert
- versor
- vertebre
- versicle
- verticillate
- vertisol
- versute
- versiculus
- vertible
- vortical
- vorticel
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *wertō