Etymology: < revert v. In sense 2 after convert n.

Etymology: Irregularly < revert v. Compare earlier reverse adj., reversed adj., and later reverted adj.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French revertir (in Anglo-Norman also reverter, with change of conjugation; French †revertir , obsolete in the standard language after the early 17th cent., now regional (Picardy) in form reverdir in specific sense ‘to resuscitate (a person)’) (of an action or event) to have a specified outcome (end of the 11th cent. in Old French in revertir a ), to return, go back (first half of the 12th cent., originally in transferred sense ‘to return (to God after having sinned)’), to turn around (late 12th cent., used reflexively), to turn, to change (into another state or condition) (13th cent.), to return to a previous subject of discourse (c1300 or earlier), to return to a former condition or state (early 14th cent. or earlier), in Anglo-Norman also (of a possession) to return to the original owner, or to his or her heirs, after the expiry of a grant, or a grantee's death (1278 or earlier), to become conscious again (beginning of the 14th cent.), (of a fief) to escheat to the lord because of lack of heir (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier), to cause (a person or thing) to return (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin revertere (also deponent revertī) to turn round and go back, return, to move back, to recoil (upon), to return (to a subject) after a digression, to turn (to a person or thing) for help, to have recourse (to), to fall back (on), to go back (to one's former practice or attitude), to return (to a previous condition), be restored, to return (to a previous owner), (of seasons, events) to come round again, recur, (in reflexive use) to recover consciousness, in post-classical Latin also to turn (a garment) back or up (c1175 in a British source), to return to one's senses or to one's right mind (from c1250 in British sources as reverti ad se , reverti in se ) < re- re- prefix + vertere to turn (see vert v.¹). Compare Old Occitan revertir , (with change of conjugation) revertar , Spanish reverter (13th cent.), Portuguese reverter (14th cent.), Italian revertere (early 14th cent. used intransitively, first half of the 14th cent. used transitively; now apparently only in sense 7d; also †revertire , †rivertere , †rivertire ). Compare reverse v.¹In sense 6b after reversion n.¹ (compare reversion n.¹ 5b). In sense 8a after Middle French renverser renverse v. (1422 in this sense, in the passage translated in quot. a1500). In sense 9 originally after Middle French reverser reverse v.¹ The β. forms show lowering of /e/ to /a/ before /r/.