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

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L&S Lewis & Short (2)
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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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perversē: (adverb)

• perversē (pervorsē), adv., v. perverto, P. a. fin.
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perversē: adverbial

perverse: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg

• per-verto (pervorto), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn around or about, to overturn, overthrow, throw down (class.).
  1. I. Lit.: pinus proceras pervortunt, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 196 Vahl.): (coqui) aulas pervortunt, Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 16: turrim ballistā, id. Bacch. 4, 4, 59: tum visam beluam immanem, quàcunque incederet, arbusta, virgulta, tecta pervertere, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49: perversae rupes, broken, craggy rocks, Liv. 21, 33.—
    1. B. Esp., in wrestling or boxing, to throw down, knock down; hence: si rex opstabit ob viam, regem ipsum prius pervortito, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 14.—
  2. II. Trop.
    1. A. To overthrow, subvert; to destroy, ruin, undo, corrupt: cito homo pervorti potest, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 52: labefactare atque pervertere amicitiam aut justitiam, Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70: quidam, propositis malorum et bonorum finibus, omne officium perverterunt, id. Off. 1, 2, 5: omnia jura divina atque humana, id. ib. 1, 8, 26: ipse (Quinctius) postquam Junium pervertit, totam causam reliquit, id. Quint. 39, 108: hostium vim se perversurum putavit, pervertit autem suam, id. Div. 2, 56, 115; id. Brut. 79, 273: aliquem amicitiā alicujus, Tac. A. 13, 45: aliquem, id. H. 3, 38: aliquos et ambitio pervertet, Quint. 12, 8, 2.—
    2. B. To put down, confute, silence one (in allusion to the meaning I. B. supra): nemo umquam me tenuissimā suspicione perstrinxit, quem non perverterim ac perfregerim, Cic. Sull. 16, 47: numquam ille me opprimet consilio, numquam ullo artificio pervertet, id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44.—Hence, perver-sus (pervorsus), a, um, P. a., turned the wrong way, askew, awry (cf. praeposterus).
    3. A. Lit.: rectus perversusque partus, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4: perversas induit comas, gets her false hair on awry, Ov. A. A. 3, 246: pondere capitum perversa ova, Plin. 10, 16, 18, § 38: perversa vestis, i. e. pulla, Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 5: Roscius erat perversissimis oculis, quales sunt strabonum, dreadfully squint-eyed, Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 79.—
    4. B. Trop., perverse, not right, wrong, evil, bad: dies pervorsus atque advorsus, Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 1: nihil pravum et perversum, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 30: quid magis inquinatum, deformatum, perversum, conturbatum dici potest, id. Har. Resp. 12, 25: homo praeposterus atque perversus, id. Clu. 26, 71: sapientia, id. Mur. 36, 75: mos, id. Rosc. Com. 18, 56: bellum Contra fata deūm perverso numine poscunt, Verg. A. 7, 584: perversa grammaticorum subtilitas, Plin. 35, 3, 4, § 13: ambitio, Quint. 10, 7, 21: generatio perversa, wicked, Vulg. Deut. 32, 20 et saep. —As subst.: perversum, i, n., a wrong, evil: in perversum sollers, Sen. Vit. Beat. 5, 3.—Hence, adv.: perversē (pervor-sē), awry, the wrong way.
      1. 1. Lit.: sella curulis in senatu perverse collocata, Suet. Galb. 18.—
      2. 2. Trop., perversely, wrongly, badly, ill: dicere, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. v. 229 Vahl.); so, dicere, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150: erras pervorse, pater, Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 36: interpretari, id. Truc. 1, 2, 41: si quid fleri pervorse videt, id. Pers. 3, 1, 40: vides, id. Merc. 2, 2, 20: si quid perverse tetreque factum est, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 23, 4: uti deorum beneficio, Cic. N. D. 3, 28, 70: imitari, id. Off. 3, 32, 113: quiescite agere perverse, Vulg. Isa. 1, 16.—Comp.: perversius, Tert. Apol. 2.—Sup.: perversissime suspicari, Hier. in Matt. 1, 25.
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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• perversē (arch. -vorsē), de travers : Suet. Galba 18 || tout de travers, d'une manière vicieuse : perverse dicere Cic. de Or. 1, 150, mal parler, cf. Nat. 3, 70 ; erras pervorse Pl. Most. 952, tu te trompes du tout au tout, cf. Pers. 368 || -ius Tert. Apol. 2 ; -issime Hier. Matth. 1, 25.
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perversē: adverbial

perverse: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg

• pervertō (-vortō), ti, sum, ĕre, tr.,
1. mettre sens dessus dessous, bouleverser, renverser de fond en comble : arbusta, tecta Cic. Div. 1, 49, bouleverser les arbres, les maisons || [fig.]
  1. a) alicujus leges Cic. Phil. 5, 7, bouleverser les lois de qqn ;
  2. b) perverso numine Virg. En. 7, 584, en tournant en sens opposé la volonté des dieux, à rencontre de...
2. [fig.] renverser, abattre : quos ipse perverterat Cic. Br. 273, ceux qu'il avait lui-même renversés, cf. Sulla 47 ; Cæcil. 44 ; Tac. Ann. 13, 45, etc. || ruiner, anéantir : omnia jura Cic. Off. 1, 26, détruire tous les droits.
GES Gesner (2)
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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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PERVERSE Adu. [στρεβλῶς, διαστρόφως] Peruerse abuti Cic. de Inuent. 1, 5. […]
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perversē: adverbial

perverse: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg

PERVERTO ti, sum, ere. [διαστρέφω, καταστρέφω, παρατροπέω] Ita vertere, vt res vel pereat, vel certe vsum non habeat. […]
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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• perverse:
      1. 1. perversus (quite wrong and misguided): an unreasonable and p. man, (homo) praeposterus atque p., Cic. Cic. 26, 71: the p. (misguided) ingenuity of grammarians, p. grammaticorum subtilitas, Plin. 35, 3, 4. Join: pravus et perversus, Cic.
      2. 2. prāvus (lit. crooked, mis-shapen: hence, absurd, unreasonable): p. counsels, p. consilia, Cic. Am. 22, fin.: esp. with perversus, v. supr. (1): also, Cic. Rab. Post. 13, 37. See also wilful, obstinate.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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perversus (not in a natural state or position; not as it ought to be, of things): praeposterus (that is out of order, said or done out of due time; of things; also, of persons who act in a disorderly or irregular manner): pravus (irregular, defective, wrong in its tendency or end, of things; e.g., mens, opinio): Vid: also, BAD.