different between controverter vs controvert

English

Etymology

controvert +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nt???v??(?)t?(?)/

Noun

controverter (plural controverters)

1. One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries

     Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern.

Related terms

• controversial
• controversialist
• controversy
• controvert
• controvertible

Further reading

• controverter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• controverter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From post-classical Latin controvertere (6th century), from Latin contro- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).

Verb

controvert (third-person singular simple present controverts, present participle controverting, simple past and past participle controverted)

1. (transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something). [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny. [from 16th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 234:

     [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.

3. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

• controversial
• controversialist
• controversy
• controverter
• controvertible
• incontrovertible

Translations

Further reading

• controvert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• controvert in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.