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Etymology
From. The usual connection with is, according to Beekes, untenable.

Verb

 * 1) turn, divert, turn back, rout an enemy
 * εἰ δ’ ὅ γ’ ἀνὴρ ὅν φημι δαΐφρων Τυδέος υἱὸς οὐχ ὅ γ’ ἄνευθε θεοῦ τάδε μαίνεται, ἀλλά τις ἄγχι ἕστηκ’ ἀθανάτων νεφέλῃ εἰλυμένος ὤμους, ὃς τούτου βέλος ὠκὺ κιχήμενον ἔτραπεν ἄλλῃ. (Iliad 5.184)
 * But if this man, whom I speak of, be the warlike son of Tydeus, he does not perform these frantic deeds without divine aid, but some one of the immortals stands near, wrapped round as to his shoulders in a cloud, who has turned into another course the swift shaft just about to hit him. (Buckley)
 * 1) change someone's mind; (middle) to change one's own mind
 * χρεὼ βουλῆς ἐμὲ καὶ σὲ διοτρεφὲς ὦ Μενέλαε κερδαλέης, ἥ τίς κεν ἐρύσσεται ἠδὲ σαώσει Ἀργείους καὶ νῆας, ἐπεὶ Διὸς ἐτράπετο φρήν. (Iliad 10.43)
 * O Jove-nurtured Menelaus, need of prudent counsel comes upon both thee and me, which will protect and preserve the Greeks and their ships, since the mind of Jove is altered.
 * 1) rotate something, change its orientation; (middle) turn around, rotate oneself
 * πάλιν τρέπεν ὄσσε φαεινώ (Iliad 13.3)
 * turned his shining eyes back
 * 1) (passive) wander, not go in a straight line
 * τραφθῆναι ἀν' Ἑλλάδα (Odyssey 15.80)

The passive sense is usually expressed using the middle voice, more rarely in the passive (but "ἐτράπην" is used for "to be routed" in Aeschylus, Persians, 1029).


 * ὅς ῥα τότ᾽ Ἀτρεΐδεω Ἀγαμέμνονος ἀντίον ἦλθεν. οἱ δ᾽ ὅτε δὴ σχεδὸν ἦσαν ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισιν ἰόντες, Ἀτρεΐδης μὲν ἅμαρτε, παραὶ δέ οἱ ἐτράπετ᾽ ἔγχος (Iliad 11.231)
 * When these, advancing against each other, were now near, the son of Atreus on his part missed, and his spear was turned aside. (Buckley)

There is no clear difference in meaning between the first and second aorists.

Etymology
Learned, from.

Verb

 * 1) divert, convert
 * 2) turn, veer
 * 1) turn, veer
 * 1) turn, veer
 * 1) turn, veer