Fromdē-(“from, away from”) +ferō(“bear, carry; suffer”).
dēferō (present infinitivedēferre,perfect activedētulī,supinedēlātum);third conjugation,suppletive
- tobear,carry orbring down or away;convey;take,remove
- to bring tomarket,sell
- Synonyms:vēndō,addīcō
- Antonyms:comparō,emō,sūmō,coëmō
- togive to someone,grant,confer upon,allot,offer to someone,bestow
- Synonyms:dēmandō,tribuō,trādō,remittō,impertiō,largior,committō
- totransfer,deliver
- Synonyms:trādō,dēdō,concēdō,reddō,dō,trānsferō
- tobring orgive anaccount of,deliver orbearnews orinformation,report,announce,state
- Synonyms:nūntiō,adnūntiō,renūntiō,referō,ēdīcō,prōdō
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid4.298–299:
- [...] Eadem impia Fāma furentī
dētulit armārī classem cursumque parārī.- And at the same time, with [Dido already] distraught, accursed Rumorreported [that the Trojans] were equipping their fleet and preparing for a voyage.
(See:fama.)
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid4.226:
- “[...] adloquere, et celerīsdēfer mea dicta per aurās.”
- [Jupiter to Mercury: Go to Aeneas,] “to speak [to him], anddeliver my orders through the swift winds.”
- (law, with nomen) toreport someone'sname before thepraetor, asplaintiff orinformer;indict,impeach,denounce,accuse
- (nautical) toarrive ordisembark
- “defero”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “defero”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “defero”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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 orad 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 anddeferri)
- 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
