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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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praeverteris | que: pres ind pass 2nd sg · futperf ind act 2nd sg

praevertēris | que: fut ind pass 2nd sg

praeverterīs | que: perf subj act 2nd sg

• prae-verto or -vorto, ti, 3, v. a., and (only in present tense) praevertor or -vortor (inf. pass. paragog. praevortier, Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 39), 3, v. dep.
  1. I. To prefer: ne me uxorem praevertisse dicant prae republicā, Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 29: si vacas animo, neque habes aliquid, quod huic sermoni praevertendum putes, Cic. Div. 1, 6, 10; Gell. 4, 3, 2.—
  2. II. To go before, precede, outstrip, outrun.
    1. A. Lit. (poet.): cursu pedum ventos, Verg. A. 7, 807: equo ventos, id. ib. 12, 345: volucremque fugā praevertitur Eurum, id. ib. 1, 317: vestigia cervae, Cat. 64, 341; Stat. Th. 5, 691.—
    2. B. Trop.
      1. 1. To be beforehand with, to anticipate; with acc., to prevent, make useless: nostra omnis lis est: pulcre praevortar viros, will anticipate, be beforehand with them (cf. praevenio), Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 75: aggerem et vineas egit, turresque admovit: quorum usum forte oblata opportunitas praevertit, has rendered useless, Liv. 8, 16: praevertunt, inquit, me fata, prevent me, Ov. M. 2, 657: celeri praevertit tristia leto, Luc. 8, 29: quae absolvi, quoniam mors praeverterat, nequiverunt, Gell. 17, 10, 6.—
      2. 2. To take possession of beforehand, to preoccupy, prepossess: vivo tentat praevertere amore Jampridem resides animos, to prepossess, Verg. A. 1, 722; cf.: neque praevorto poculum, take before my turn, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 59.—
      3. 3. To surpass in worth, outweigh, exceed, to be preferable, of more importance: erilis praevertit metus, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 16: quoniam pietatem amori tuo video praevortere, outweigh, exceed, id. Ps. 1, 3, 59: nec posse, cum hostes prope ad portas essent, bello praevertisse quicquam, Liv. 2, 24.—
      4. 4. To turn one's attention first or principally to, to do first or in preference to any thing else, to despatch first; used esp. in the dep.
          1. α. With dat.: rei mandatae omnes sapientes primum praevorti decet, to apply themselves principally to it, to despatch it first, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 40: ei rei primum praevorti volo, id. Capt. 2, 3, 100: stultitia est, cui bene esse licet, cum praevorti litibus, to occupy one's self with contentions, id. Pers. 5, 2, 20: cave, pigritiae praevorteris, do not give yourself up to indolence, id. Merc. 1, 2, 3: etsi ab hoste discedere detrimentosum esse existimabat, tamen huic rei praevertendum existimavit, Caes. B. G. 7, 33.—
          2. β. With acc., to do or attend to in preference: hoc praevortar principio, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 8: si quid dictum est per jocum, non aequom est, id te serio praevortier, to take it in earnest, id. Am. 3, 2, 39; Liv. 8, 13: aliud in praesentia praevertendum sibi esse dixit, that must be attended to first, id. 35, 33.—Pass.: praevorti hoc certum est rebus aliis omnibus, Plaut. Cist. 5, 1, 8. —
          3. γ. With ad, to apply one's self particularly to any thing: si quando ad interna praeverterent, Tac. A. 4, 32; so, praevertor, dep.: nunc praevertemur ad nostrum orbem, Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 123: nunc praevertemur ad differentias aeris, id. 34, 8, 20, § 94: ad ea praeverti, Col. 3, 7: hostes ad occursandum pugnandumque in eos praevertentur, Gell. 3, 7, 6.—
          4. δ. With an adverb of place: illuc praevertamur, let us first of all look at this, Hor. S. 1, 3, 38.—(ε) With a rel.-clause; proximum erat narrare glandiferas quoque, ni praeverti cogeret admiratio, quaenam esset vita sine arbore ullā, Plin. H. N. 16, praef. § 1.—(ζ) Absol.: in rem quod sit, praevortaris, potius quam, etc., do, perform, attend to, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 8.
GAF Gaffiot (2)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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praeverteris | que: pres ind pass 2nd sg · futperf ind act 2nd sg

praevertēris | que: fut ind pass 2nd sg

praeverterīs | que: perf subj act 2nd sg

• prævertō (-vortō), ti, sum, ĕre, tr.,
1. faire passer avant : incidi in id tempus, quod iis rebus, in quas ingressa erat oratio, prævertendum est Cic. Phil. 2, 88, je tombe sur une époque qu'il me faut faire passer avant l'objet que j'avais abordé dans mon discours, cf. Cic. Div. 1, 10 || pass. præverti, être mis devant, passer devant : Liv. 3, 22, 2 || préférer, rem rei, une chose à une autre : Pl. Ps. 293 ; Gell. 4, 3, 2
2. devancer : cursu pedum prævertere ventos Virg. En. 7, 807, devancer les vents à la course || se saisir d'avance : animos amore Virg. En. 1, 721, occuper d'avance le cœur par l'amour, mettre d'avance un amour au cœur ; poculum Pl. Mil. 653, prendre le premier la coupe
3. prévenir, aller au-devant de : [avec dat.] huic rei prævertendum existimavit Cæs. G. 7, 33, 1, il jugea qu'il fallait aller au-devant du danger || [acc.] turrium usum opportunitas prævertit Liv. 8, 16, 8, une heureuse conjoncture rendit l'usage des tours inutile ; prævertunt me fata Ov. M. 2, 657, les destins me devancent || [abst] Gell. 17, 10, 6
4. au sens réfléchi, v. prævertor : Tac. Ann. 4, 32.
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praeverteris | que: pres ind pass 2nd sg

praevertēris | que: fut ind pass 2nd sg

• prævertor (-vortor), ī,
I. dépon., mêmes sens que præverto ; faire passer avant : Liv. 8, 13, 1 || devancer : Virg. En. 1, 317 || prévenir, aller au-devant de, réduire à néant : Pl. Cas. 509.
II. sens réfléchi, se tourner d'abord vers [employé seult aux formes du présent] ; [avec dat.] rei, vers une chose : Pl. Merc. 376 ; Capt. 460 || [avec ad] :
  1. a) ad Armenios Tac. Ann. 2, 55, se rendre d'abord en Arménie ;
  2. b) s'occuper d'abord de : Plin. 28, 123 ; 34, 94 ; Gell. 3, 7, 6 || [avec in acc.] se rendre d'abord dans : Liv. 32, 13, 4 || illuc prævertamur Hor. S. 1, 3, 38, passons d'abord à cet autre fait.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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praeverteris | que: pres ind pass 2nd sg · futperf ind act 2nd sg

praevertēris | que: fut ind pass 2nd sg

praeverterīs | que: perf subj act 2nd sg

PRAEVERTO ti, sum, ere. Actiu. et PRAEVERTOR, eris, verti. […]
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