averta

• aberta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ορτή (aortḗ, “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/.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈu̯er.ta/, [äˈu̯ɛrt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈver.ta/, [äˈvɛrt̪ä]

averta f (genitive avertae); first declension

1. portmanteau, saddlebag(s)

   Synonyms: pēra, mantica, saccus

First-declension noun.

• avertārius

• → Ancient Greek: ἀβέρτα (abérta)
• ⇒ Sardinian: bertula
• Sicilian: vèrtula (from *averta + -ula)

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

• “averta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• averta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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.