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“divert” in Latin
flectōto bend, curve or bow; to deviate, distract; to turn or curldērīvōTo draw or lead off; To divert; To derivedēdūcōto lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protectāvertōto turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate; to remove; to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneselfabdūcōto lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove; to take (with one) to dine; to take asideabstrahōto draw away from, drag or pull away; to withdraw, alienate from; to divert, draw awayāvocōto call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove, separate, turn; to distract or divert someone's attention; to dissuade, ddistrahōto draw, pull or drag asunder; tear in pieces, separate forcibly, divide; scatter; to sell separately (in parcels), reta
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
divert
To turn off from any course, flectere; declinare aliquem, or aliquid de re (☞ declinare in this sense not Ciceronian; but Liv., si quo inde agmen declinare voluissem; and Quintilian, neque spe neque metu declinatus animus): animum et cogitationes avocare a re (with reference to the mind): derivare (of rivers, etc.; also IMPROP., rem in aliquid): deducere (to lead or move astray): avertere (to give a different direction): abducere: abstrahere (to divert entirely): avocare (to call off; aliquem ab aliqua re: to anything, ad aliquid. Also of “diverting forces some other way,” [Davies], milites ad aliud bellum avocare, Liv.). To divert the course of a river, flumen derivare, avertere; aquam de fluvio or ex flumine derivare (to lead off the water): to divert the river from its usual, or into another channel, flumen novo alveo avertere: to divert anybody from his purpose, aliquem a consilio revocare: not to allow one’s self to be diverted from one’s purpose, perstare in aliqua re.
Hence, to turn the mind from anything it is intent on, distrahere (e.g., alicujus industriam in plura studia): aliquem distinere (to distract his attention): distringere aliquem (to occupy with more than one object). To divert anybody’s mind from his grief, animum alicujus a curis or a solicitudine abducere: aliquem oblectare.
Hence, to amuse, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for divert?
- The usual Latin words for “divert” are flectō, dērīvō, dēdūcō; also āvertō, abdūcō, abstrahō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.