Alternative forms

• aberta

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#AVERTACategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#AVERTA ᾰ̓ορτή (ăortḗ, “knapsack”). Attested from ca. 4th century CE.

Either influenced by āvertō (“to turn something away”) or borrowed early enough (despite the late attestation), and through a Greek dialect preserving /w/, to participate in the early Latin sound change /wo/> /we/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈwɛr.ta]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#AVERTACategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#AVERTA
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈvɛr.ta]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#AVERTACategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#AVERTA

Noun

averta f (genitive avertae)Category:Latin lemmas#AVERTACategory:Latin nouns#AVERTACategory:Latin first declension nouns#AVERTACategory:Latin feminine nouns in the first declension#AVERTACategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#AVERTACategory:Latin feminine nouns#AVERTACategory:Pages with entries#AVERTACategory:Pages with 1 entry#AVERTA; first declension

1. portmanteau, saddlebag(s)

   Synonyms: pēra, mantica, saccus

References

• “averta” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

• “averta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "averta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “averta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.