Etymograph

English

revert

Revert comes from Old French revertir ‘to return’, from Latin 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 CErevertor‘to return’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400revertir‘to return’
  7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602revert

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 CErevertor‘to return’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400revertir‘to return’
  7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1599–1602revert

Earliest quotation: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: “Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes…”

Linked words

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

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

through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’

adverse, diversion, inverse, transverse, inversion, aversion, perverse, averse, perversion, 41 more

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

university, version, conversation, divorce, diversity, versus, diverse, verse, vertical, advertisement, versatile, vortex, convertible, adversity, diversification, advert, divert, pervert, vertigo, vertex, vertebrate, introvert, avert, subvert, verso, vertebra, perversity, vertiginous, 49 more

Today it means

noun One who, or that which, reverts.

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

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

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