ἐκ Χάεος δ' Ἔρεβός τε μέλαινά τε Νὺξ ἐγένοντο... (Hesiod's Theogony 123) → From Chasm, Erebos and black Night came to be...
a primitive root; to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse): make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).