Etymograph

English

interversion

Interversion comes from French interversion ‘swapping’, from intervertir ‘to interchange’, and ultimately from Latin intervertō ‘to turn aside or divert’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintervertōas intervertere‘to turn aside or divert’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentintervertir‘to interchange’
  3. French, derivedc. 1600–presentinterversion‘swapping’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1862same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintervertōas intervertere‘to turn aside or divert’
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentintervertir‘to interchange’
  3. French, derivedc. 1600–presentinterversion‘swapping’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1862same form

Earliest quotation: 1862, The American Law Register - Volume 10: “Interversion is effected by a conveyance from the owner…”

Every English word from Latin intervertō

Today it means

noun The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.

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