Etymology

From dē- (“from, away from”) +‎ ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”)Category:Latin terms prefixed with de-#FERO.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdeː.fɛ.roː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#DEFEROCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#DEFERO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.fe.ro]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#DEFEROCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#DEFERO

Verb

dēferō (present infinitive dēferre, perfect active dētulī, supine dēlātum)Category:Latin lemmas#DEFEROCategory:Latin verbs#DEFEROCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#DEFEROCategory:Pages with entries#DEFEROCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DEFERO; third conjugation, suppletive

1. to bear, carry or bring down or away; convey; take, remove
2. to bring to market, sell

   Synonyms: vēndō, addīcō

   Antonyms: comparō, emō, sūmō, coëmō

3. to give to someone, grant, confer upon, allot, offer to someone, bestow

   Synonyms: dēmandō, tribuō, trādō, remittō, impertiō, largior, committō

4. to transfer, deliver

   Synonyms: trādō, dēdō, concēdō, reddō, dō, trānsferō

5. to bring or give an account of, deliver or bear news or information, report, announce, state

   Synonyms: nūntiō, adnūntiō, renūntiō, referō, ēdīcō, prōdō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.298–299:

     [...] Eadem impia Fāma furentī
     dētulit armārī classem cursumque parārī.

     And at the same time, with [Dido already] distraught, accursed Rumor reported [that the Trojans] were equipping their fleet and preparing for a voyage.
     (See: fama.)

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.226:

     “[...] adloquere, et celerīs dēfer mea dicta per aurās.”

     [Jupiter to Mercury: Go to Aeneas,] “to speak [to him], and deliver my orders through the swift winds.”

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6. (lawCategory:la:Law#DEFERO, with nomen) to report someone's name before the praetor, as plaintiff or informer; indict, impeach, denounce, accuse
7. (nauticalCategory:la:Nautical#DEFERO) to arrive or disembark

References

• “defero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “defero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “defero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fall down headlong: praecipitem ire; in praeceps deferri
    
  • to award the prize to..: palmam deferre, dare alicui
    
  • to entrust a matter to a person; to commission: negotium ad aliquem deferre
    
  • to give the palm, the first place (for wisdom) to some one: primas (e.g. sapientiae) alicui deferre, tribuere, concedere
    
  • to confer supreme power on a person: imperium, rerum summam deferre alicui
    
  • to invest some one with royal power: alicui regnum deferre, tradere
    
  • to invest a person with a position of dignity: honores alicui mandare, deferre
    
  • to accuse, denounce a person: nomen alicuius deferre (apud praetorem) (Verr. 2. 38. 94)
    
  • to appoint some one commander-in-chief: imperii summam deferre alicui or ad aliquem, tradere alicui
    
  • to refer a matter to a council of war: rem ad consilium deferre
    
  • to hold on one's course: cursum tenere (opp. commutare and deferri)
    
  • to be driven out of one's course; to drift: deferri, deici aliquo
    
  • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook