Fromcon-(“together”) +‎ferō(“I bear”). ComparePolishzebrać(“to collect”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈkon.fe.roː/,[ˈkõːfɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈkon.fe.ro/,[ˈkɔɱfero]

cōnferō (present infinitivecōnferre,perfect activecontulī,supinecollātum);third conjugation,suppletive

1. tobring orcollect together,gather;unite,join,connect

   Synonyms:compellō,convehō,stīpō,cōgō,congerō,cōnstruō,cōnserō,concitō,contribuō,committō,concieō,contrahō,reficiō

2. to bring orplace together or near,set inopposition,oppose,match; bring into hostile contact
3. to bring together forcomparison,compare,contrast

   Synonyms:aequō,contendō,comparō

4. toconsult,confer,consider,deliberate,talk over,discuss; exchange (words)
5. tocompress,abridge,condense,sum up
6. tobear,carry,convey,direct,take,bring

   signaconferre cum aliquo ―to go for fight with someone

7. to collectmoney,treasures, etc., for anyobject,bringofferings,contribute
   • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe ConditaII.9:

     ut divitesconferrent

     • Translation by Spillan

       that the riches shouldcontribute

8. todevote,apply to,employ,use,direct,bestow upon, confer,grant
9. topay in,contribute, be profitable, be of use

   Synonyms:prōficiō,prōsum,adiuvō

10. tochange,transform,turn,metamorphose

    Synonyms:mūtō,vertō,versō,commūtō

11. torefer,ascribe,attribute,impute,throwblame,lay to thecharge of
12. totransfer,remove,defer,put off,postpone, refer

• “confero”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confero”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confero inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 simplyse dare alicui, se tradere in disciplinam alicuius, se conferre, se applicare ad aliquem
    
  • to devote oneself to philosophy:se conferre ad philosophiam, ad philosophiae orsapientiae studium (Fam. 4. 3. 4)
    
  • to devote oneself to writing history:ad historiam (scribendam) se conferre orse 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 orad 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
    
• confero inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “conferre”, inMediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus,Leiden,Boston:E. J. Brill, page242/2
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

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