English
intervert
Intervert comes from Latin interverto ‘to turn aside or divert’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterverto‘to turn aside or divert’
- Englishearliest quotation 1953intervert
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterverto‘to turn aside or divert’
- Englishearliest quotation 1953intervert
Earliest quotation: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt: “And so little could Watt support, on certain days,…”
Every English word from Latin interverto
Today it means
verb To turn to another course or use.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin interverto / intervert