reverter

See also: réverter

English

Etymology

From revert +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

Noun

reverter (plural reverters)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (property law) The reversion of ownership of an estate in land to the original grantor pursuant to the occurrence of a condition set forth in the original grant.

Derived terms

• possibility of reverter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

reverter

1. to revert (especially on a wiki)

Conjugation

Conjugation of reverter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reverter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revertant /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reverté /ʁə.vɛʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reverte /ʁə.vɛʁt/	revertes /ʁə.vɛʁt/	reverte /ʁə.vɛʁt/	revertons /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɔ̃/	revertez /ʁə.vɛʁ.te/	revertent /ʁə.vɛʁt/
	imperfect	revertais /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɛ/	revertais /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɛ/	revertait /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɛ/	revertions /ʁə.vɛʁ.tjɔ̃/	revertiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.tje/	revertaient /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	revertai /ʁə.vɛʁ.te/	revertas /ʁə.vɛʁ.ta/	reverta /ʁə.vɛʁ.ta/	revertâmes /ʁə.vɛʁ.tam/	revertâtes /ʁə.vɛʁ.tat/	revertèrent /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	reverterai /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁe/	reverteras /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁa/	revertera /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁa/	reverterons /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	reverterez /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁe/	reverteront /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reverterais /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	reverterais /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	reverterait /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	reverterions /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	reverteriez /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁje/	reverteraient /ʁə.vɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	reverte /ʁə.vɛʁt/	revertes /ʁə.vɛʁt/	reverte /ʁə.vɛʁt/	revertions /ʁə.vɛʁ.tjɔ̃/	revertiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.tje/	revertent /ʁə.vɛʁt/
	imperfect2	revertasse /ʁə.vɛʁ.tas/	revertasses /ʁə.vɛʁ.tas/	revertât /ʁə.vɛʁ.ta/	revertassions /ʁə.vɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	revertassiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.ta.sje/	revertassent /ʁə.vɛʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reverte /ʁə.vɛʁt/	—	revertons /ʁə.vɛʁ.tɔ̃/	revertez /ʁə.vɛʁ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Portuguese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin revertō.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.veʁˈte(ʁ)/ [he.vehˈte(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.veʁˈte(ʁ)/ [he.vehˈte(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁe.veɾˈte(ɾ)/ [he.veɾˈte(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.veʁˈte(ʁ)/ [χe.veχˈte(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.veɻˈte(ɻ)/ [he.veɻˈte(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.vɨɾˈteɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.vɨɾˈteɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.bɨɾˈteɾ/ [ʁɨ.βɨɾˈteɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.vɨɾˈte.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: re‧ver‧ter

Verb

reverter (first-person singular present reverto, first-person singular preterite reverti, past participle revertido)

1. to revert (to turn to the contrary), to return
2. to revert (to cause to return to a former condition)
3. to allocate, to allot
4. to turn (against)

   A situação reverteu contra mim. ― The situation turned against me.

5. (Islam) to convert to Islam
   • 2023 May 16, José Alberto Costa Silva, O Islam na Região Nordeste do Brasil: reversões, hibridismos e tensões religiosas na ummah muçulmana sunita em Itabaianinha-SE‎^[1], Editora CRV, →ISBN:

     Nesse sentido, os objetos dessa pesquisa apontam para os seguintes problemas norteadores: quais os fatores que levaram uma comunidade evangélica a reverter ao Islam? […]

     In this sense, the objects of this research point to the following guiding problems: what factors led an evangelical community to revert to Islam? […]

Conjugation

    Conjugation of reverter (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	reverter
Personal	reverter	reverteres	reverter	revertermos	reverterdes	reverterem
Gerund
	revertendo
Past participle
Masculine	revertido			revertidos
Feminine	revertida			revertidas
Indicative
Present	reverto	revertes	reverte	revertemos	reverteis	revertem
Imperfect	revertia	revertias	revertia	revertíamos	revertíeis	revertiam
Preterite	reverti	reverteste	reverteu	revertemos	revertestes	reverteram
Pluperfect	revertera	reverteras	revertera	revertêramos	revertêreis	reverteram
Future	reverterei	reverterás	reverterá	reverteremos	revertereis	reverterão
Conditional	reverteria	reverterias	reverteria	reverteríamos	reverteríeis	reverteriam
Subjunctive
Present	reverta	revertas	reverta	revertamos	revertais	revertam
Imperfect	revertesse	revertesses	revertesse	revertêssemos	revertêsseis	revertessem
Future	reverter	reverteres	reverter	revertermos	reverterdes	reverterem
Imperative
Affirmative		reverte	reverta	revertamos	revertei	revertam
Negative (não)		não revertas	não reverta	não revertamos	não revertais	não revertam

Related terms

• reversão
• reverso

 

Further reading

• “reverter”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024