defero
Latin
Etymology
From dē- (“from, away from”) + ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.fe.roː/, [ˈd̪eːfɛroː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.fe.ro/, [ˈd̪ɛːfero]
Verb
dēferō (present infinitive dēferre, perfect active dētulī, supine dēlātum); third conjugation, irregular
- I bear, carry or bring down or away; convey; take, remove.
- I bring to market, sell.
- Synonyms: vēndō, addīcō
- Antonyms: comparō, emō, sūmō
- I give to someone, grant, confer upon, allot, offer to someone, bestow
- Synonyms: dēmandō, tribuō, trādō, remittō, impertiō, largior, committō
- I transfer, deliver.
- Synonyms: trādō, dēdō, concēdō, reddō, dō, trānsferō
- I bring or give an account of, report, announce, state.
- Synonyms: nūntiō, adnūntiō, renūntiō, referō, ēdīcō, prōdō
- (law, with nomen) I report someone's name before the praetor, as plaintiff or informer; indict, impeach, denounce, accuse.
- (nautical) I arrive or disembark.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of dēferō (third conjugation, irregular, suppletive) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēferō | dēfers | dēfert | dēferimus | dēfertis | dēferunt |
| imperfect | dēferēbam | dēferēbās | dēferēbat | dēferēbāmus | dēferēbātis | dēferēbant | |
| future | dēferam | dēferēs | dēferet | dēferēmus | dēferētis | dēferent | |
| perfect | dētulī | dētulistī | dētulit | dētulimus | dētulistis | dētulērunt, dētulēre | |
| pluperfect | dētuleram | dētulerās | dētulerat | dētulerāmus | dētulerātis | dētulerant | |
| future perfect | dētulerō | dētuleris | dētulerit | dētulerimus | dētuleritis | dētulerint | |
| passive | present | dēferor | dēferris, dēferre | dēfertur | dēferimur | dēferiminī | dēferuntur |
| imperfect | dēferēbar | dēferēbāris, dēferēbāre | dēferēbātur | dēferēbāmur | dēferēbāminī | dēferēbantur | |
| future | dēferar | dēferēris, dēferēre | dēferētur | dēferēmur | dēferēminī | dēferentur | |
| perfect | dēlātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dēlātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | dēlātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dēferam | dēferās | dēferat | dēferāmus | dēferātis | dēferant |
| imperfect | dēferrem | dēferrēs | dēferret | dēferrēmus | dēferrētis | dēferrent | |
| perfect | dētulerim | dētulerīs | dētulerit | dētulerīmus | dētulerītis | dētulerint | |
| pluperfect | dētulissem | dētulissēs | dētulisset | dētulissēmus | dētulissētis | dētulissent | |
| passive | present | dēferar | dēferāris, dēferāre | dēferātur | dēferāmur | dēferāminī | dēferantur |
| imperfect | dēferrer | dēferrēris, dēferrēre | dēferrētur | dēferrēmur | dēferrēminī | dēferrentur | |
| perfect | dēlātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dēlātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dēfer | — | — | dēferte | — |
| future | — | dēfertō | dēfertō | — | dēfertōte | dēferuntō | |
| passive | present | — | dēferre | — | — | dēferiminī | — |
| future | — | dēfertor | dēfertor | — | — | dēferuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | dēferre | dētulisse | dēlātūrum esse | dēferrī | dēlātum esse | dēlātum īrī | |
| participles | dēferēns | — | dēlātūrus | — | dēlātus | dēferendus, dēferundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dēferendī | dēferendō | dēferendum | dēferendō | dēlātum | dēlātū | ||
Derived terms
- dēferēns
- dēlātiō
- dēlātor
- dēlātūra
Related terms
Related terms
- adferō / afferō
- auferō
- circumferō
- cōnferō
- dēlātōrius
- differō
- efferō
- ferō
- īnferō
- interferō
- intrōferō
- offerō
- perferō
- postferō
- praeferō
- praeterferor
- prōferō
- referō
- sufferō
- trānsferō
Descendants
- → Catalan: deferir, delatar
- → English: defer, delate
- → French: déférer
- → Italian: deferire
- → Portuguese: deferir
- → Spanish: deferir, delatar
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
- to fall down headlong: praecipitem ire; in praeceps deferri