WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
-vert-, root.
- -vert-, and a related form -vers-, come from Latin, where they have the meaning "turn;
change.'' This meaning is found in such words as: adversary, adverse, advertise, aversion, avert, controversy, conversant, conversation, converse, conversion, convert, diverse, diversion, divert, extrovert, inadvertent, incontrovertible, introvert, inversion, invert, irreversible, obverse, perverse, perversion, pervert, reversal, reverse, revert, subversion, subversive, subvert, transverse, traverse, universal, universe, versatile, verse, version, versus, vertebra, vertebrate, vertex, vertical, vertiginous, vertigo.
'-vert-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
adverse
- advertent
- ambivert
- anniversary
- averse
- blipvert
- color
- controvert
- converse
- covert action
- diverse
- extrovert
- fructed
- haricot vert
- introvert
- invert soap
- invert sugar
- obverse
- tapis vert
- verderer
- verdigris
- verdin
- verditer
- verdure
- verjuice
- verse
- verst
- vert
- vertex
- vertigo
- vervet