English
vertible
Vertible comes from Old French vertible ‘changeable’, from Latin vertō ‘to turn’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-1‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertō1‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertō2‘to turn’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertibilis2‘changeable, variable, †vertible’stem of vertō
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400vertible2‘changeable’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667vertible2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin verto
- 2 Wiktionary, English vertible
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1667, Henry More, Divine Dialogues: “But were it not better that God Almighty should…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wert-Wiktionary, Latin verto‘to turn, to rotate, spin’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wertōWiktionary, Latin verto‘to turn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertōWiktionary, English vertible‘to turn’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvertibilisWiktionary, English vertible‘changeable, variable, †vertible’stem of vertō
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400vertibleWiktionary, English vertible‘changeable’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667vertibleWiktionary, English vertible. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1667, Henry More, Divine Dialogues: “But were it not better that God Almighty should…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wert- ‘to turn, to rotate, spin’
word, worth, weird, ridiculous, universe, ridicule, derision, wurst, deride, invert, derisive, extraversion, 58 more
through Proto-Italic *wertō ‘to turn’
adverse, diversion, inverse, transverse, inversion, aversion, perverse, averse, perversion, reversion, 41 more
through Latin vertō ‘to turn’
university, version, divorce, conversation, diversity, versus, diverse, verse, advertisement, vortex, adversity, versatile, diversification, advert, divert, revert, pervert, vertex, vertebrate, avert, introvert, subvert, verso, vertebra, perversity, evert, 50 more
Today it means
adj Able to turn or to be turned; changeable.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “vertible”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin verto. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wert- / vertible