Etymology

convert

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Today it means: To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product. Full definition →

Middle English converten ← Old French convertir ← Latin convertō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*wert-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*wértetor
  7. Proto-Italic*wertō
  8. Proto-Italic*komwertō
  9. Latinconvertō
  10. Old Frenchconvertir
  11. Middle Englishconverten
  12. English todayconvert

From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.