Etymograph

English

aversion

Aversion comes from Latin āversiō ‘turning away’, from vertō ‘to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to…’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*wértetor‘to turn, be turning’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō‘to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāvertō‘turn away’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāversiōas āversiō‘turning away’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1961aversion

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*wértetor‘to turn, be turning’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō‘to turn’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō‘to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāvertō‘turn away’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEāversiōas āversiō‘turning away’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1961aversion

Earliest quotation: 1961, Joseph Heller, The Soldier in White: “The other patients in the ward, all but the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’

word, worth, weird, ridiculous, universe, ridicule, invert, deride, derision, wurst, derisive, 58 more

through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’

adverse, inverse, transverse, perverse, avert, vertebra, evert, vertiginous, 40 more

through Latin vertō ‘to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to…’

university, divorce, conversation, vertical, versus, diverse, diversity, advertisement, verse, vortex, versatile, convertible, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertex, vertigo, adversity, vertebrate, introvert, subvert, diversion, diversification, vert, inversion, verso, perversion, reversion, perversity, 47 more

Today it means

noun Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert- / aversion

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