English
renversement
Renversement comes from French renversement ‘act of knocking over’, and goes back to Latin inverso ‘to invert’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinversoas inversāre‘to invert’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentenverser
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentrenverser‘to turn over, turn upside down’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentrenversement‘act of knocking over’
- Englishearliest quotation 1969same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinversoas inversāre‘to invert’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentenverser
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentrenverser‘to turn over, turn upside down’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentrenversement‘act of knocking over’
- Englishearliest quotation 1969same form
Earliest quotation: 1969, Flying Magazine: “It's approved for loops, barrel and aileron rolls, horizontal…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, worth, weird, ridiculous, universe, ridicule, derision, invert, deride, derisive, wurst, extraversion, 54 more
through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’
adverse, diversion, advertisement, aversion, transverse, inverse, perverse, introvert, vertebra, perversion, averse, evert, reversion, vertiginous, 37 more
through Latin vertō ‘turn’
university, version, divorce, diversity, vertical, versus, diverse, verse, vortex, convertible, advert, divert, pervert, adversity, diversification, vertex, revert, vertigo, avert, vertebrate, subvert, vert, verso, perversity, 50 more
through Latin invertō ‘invert, turn upside down, upset’
through Latin versō
Today it means
noun A reversal or turning backwards; turnaround.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin inverso / renversement