Meaning of converto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to turn upside-down; to invert
   conjugation-3, transitive
2. to turn over (soil etc)
   conjugation-3, transitive
3. to turn back or recoil
   conjugation-3, transitive
4. to direct oneself
   conjugation-3, intransitive
5. to rotate
   conjugation-3, transitive
6. to reverse
   conjugation-3, transitive
7. to reverse or to turn as in to convert, change, alter
   conjugation-3
8. to translate
   conjugation-3, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“DĀVUS: Hāc nōn successit; alia aggrediēmur via. / Nīsī id putās, quia prīmō prōcessit parum, / nōn posse iam ad salūtem convertī hoc malum.”

DAVUS: This didn’t succeed; we’ll try another way. Unless you think that because at first it made so little progress, this bad situation cannot now be turned to a favorable outcome.

“memorans illum sermonem quem dixit Dominus per Amos prophetam dies festi vestri convertentur in lamentationem et luctum (Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.)”

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