confero
Latin
Etymology
From con- (“together”) + ferō (“I bear”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.fe.roː/, [ˈkõːfɛroː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.fe.ro/, [ˈkɔɱfero]
Verb
cōnferō (present infinitive cōnferre, perfect active contulī, supine collātum); third conjugation, irregular
- I bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect.
- Synonyms: compellō, convehō, stīpō, cōgō, congerō, cōnstruō, cōnserō, concitō, contribuō, committō, concieō, contrahō, reficiō
- I bring or place together or near, set in opposition, oppose, match; bring into hostile contact.
- I bring together for comparison, compare, contrast.
- Synonyms: aequō, contendō, comparō
- I consult, confer, consider, deliberate, talk over, discuss; exchange (words).
- I compress, abridge, condense, sum up.
- I bear, carry, convey, direct, take, bring.
- signa conferre cum aliquo ― to go for fight with someone
- I collect money, treasures, etc., for any object, bring offerings, contribute
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita (translation of Spillan) II, 9:
- ut divites conferrent
- that the riches should contribute
- ut divites conferrent
- I devote, apply to, employ, use, direct, bestow upon, confer, grant.
- I pay in, contribute, am profitable, am of use.
- Synonyms: prōficiō, prōsum, adiuvō
- I change, transform, turn, metamorphose.
- Synonyms: mūtō, vertō, versō, commūtō
- I refer, ascribe, attribute, impute, throw blame, lay to the charge of.
- I transfer, remove, defer, put off, postpone, refer.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of cōnferō (third conjugation, irregular, suppletive) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnferō | cōnfers | cōnfert | cōnferimus | cōnfertis | cōnferunt |
| imperfect | cōnferēbam | cōnferēbās | cōnferēbat | cōnferēbāmus | cōnferēbātis | cōnferēbant | |
| future | cōnferam | cōnferēs | cōnferet | cōnferēmus | cōnferētis | cōnferent | |
| perfect | contulī | contulistī | contulit | contulimus | contulistis | contulērunt, contulēre | |
| pluperfect | contuleram | contulerās | contulerat | contulerāmus | contulerātis | contulerant | |
| future perfect | contulerō | contuleris | contulerit | contulerimus | contuleritis | contulerint | |
| passive | present | cōnferor | cōnferris, cōnferre | cōnfertur | cōnferimur | cōnferiminī | cōnferuntur |
| imperfect | cōnferēbar | cōnferēbāris, cōnferēbāre | cōnferēbātur | cōnferēbāmur | cōnferēbāminī | cōnferēbantur | |
| future | cōnferar | cōnferēris, cōnferēre | cōnferētur | cōnferēmur | cōnferēminī | cōnferentur | |
| perfect | collātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | collātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | collātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnferam | cōnferās | cōnferat | cōnferāmus | cōnferātis | cōnferant |
| imperfect | cōnferrem | cōnferrēs | cōnferret | cōnferrēmus | cōnferrētis | cōnferrent | |
| perfect | contulerim | contulerīs | contulerit | contulerīmus | contulerītis | contulerint | |
| pluperfect | contulissem | contulissēs | contulisset | contulissēmus | contulissētis | contulissent | |
| passive | present | cōnferar | cōnferāris, cōnferāre | cōnferātur | cōnferāmur | cōnferāminī | cōnferantur |
| imperfect | cōnferrer | cōnferrēris, cōnferrēre | cōnferrētur | cōnferrēmur | cōnferrēminī | cōnferrentur | |
| perfect | collātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | collātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cōnfer | — | — | cōnferte | — |
| future | — | cōnfertō | cōnfertō | — | cōnfertōte | cōnferuntō | |
| passive | present | — | cōnferre | — | — | cōnferiminī | — |
| future | — | cōnfertor | cōnfertor | — | — | cōnferuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cōnferre | contulisse | collātūrum esse | cōnferrī | collātum esse | collātum īrī | |
| participles | cōnferēns | — | collātūrus | — | collātus | cōnferendus, cōnferundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cōnferendī | cōnferendō | cōnferendum | cōnferendō | collātum | collātū | ||
Related terms
- adferō, afferō
- auferō
- circumferō
- dēferō
- differō
- efferō
- ferō
- īnferō
- interferō
- intrōferō
- offerō
- perferō
- postferō
- praeferō
- praeterferor
- prōferō
- referō
- sufferō
- trānsferō
Descendants
- → Catalan: conferir
- → Galician: conferir
- → Italian: conferire
- → Old French: conferer
- Middle French: conférer
- French: conférer
- → English: confer
- → German: konferieren
- Middle French: conférer
- → Portuguese: conferir
- → Spanish: conferir, colar
- → English: cf., cf, collate
References
- “confero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to go to a place: se conferre in aliquem locum
- to employ one's time in..: tempus conferre ad aliquid
- to contribute alms: stipem (pecuniam) conferre
- to employ in the furtherance of one's interests: aliquid in usum suum conferre
- to show kindness to..: benevolentiam alicui praestare, in aliquem conferre
- to heap benefits upon..: beneficia in aliquem conferre
- to gain some one's friendship; to become intimate with: ad alicuius amicitiam se conferre, se applicare
- to expend great labour on a thing: operam alicui rei tribuere, in aliquid conferre
- to give all one's attention to a thing: omnes cogitationes ad aliquid conferre
- to employ all one's energies on literary work: omne studium in litteris collocare, ad litteras conferre
- to become a pupil, disciple of some one: operam dare or simply se dare alicui, se tradere in disciplinam alicuius, se conferre, se applicare ad aliquem
- to devote oneself to philosophy: se conferre ad philosophiam, ad philosophiae or sapientiae studium (Fam. 4. 3. 4)
- to devote oneself to writing history: ad historiam (scribendam) se conferre or se applicare
- to devote oneself to the study of a natural science: se conferre ad naturae investigationem
- to devote oneself to poetry: se conferre ad poesis studium
- to devote oneself to oratory: ad dicendum se conferre
- to become a writer, embrace a literary career: ad scribendum or ad scribendi studium se conferre
- to put oneself under some one's protection: se conferre, se tradere, se permittere in alicuius fidem
- to be courteous, obliging to some one: in aliquem officia conferre
- to enter into conversation with some one: sermonem conferre, instituere, ordiri cum aliquo
- to put our heads together: capita conferre (Liv. 2. 45)
- to devote oneself to politics, a political career: accedere, se conferre ad rem publicam
- to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre
- to devote oneself body and soul to the good of the state: totum et animo et corpore in salutem rei publicae se conferre
- to put the blame on another: culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere
- with close ranks; with ranks in disorder: confertis, solutis ordinibus
- to come to close quarters: signa conferre cum hoste
- to fight in open order: laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
- to take to flight: se conicere, se conferre in fugam
- to go to a place: se conferre in aliquem locum
- confero in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “conferre”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 242/2
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti