Perverted is the past participle of pervert, from Latin pervertere ('to overturn, corrupt'), from per- ('thoroughly') + vertere ('to turn'). The etymological trail includes Latin pervertere and Latin vertere. As an adjective, perverted means distorted or corrupted from what is right or natural. The same family is visible in derived forms such as pervertedly and pervertedness and related forms such as pervert, perversion, and perverse. Morphologically, the word is built from the elements named in its history, so the modern form preserves a visible compound, prefix, or suffix structure.