Latin

Verb

cōnferō ‎(present infinitive cōnferre, perfect active contulī, supine collātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I bring or collect together, gather; unite, join.
2. I bring together, set in opposition, oppose, match.
3. I bring together in thought, compare, contrast.
4. I consult, confer, consider, deliberate, talk over.
5. I compress, abridge, condense, sum up.
6. I bear, carry, convey, direct, take, bring.
7. I devote, apply, employ, direct, bestow upon, confer, grant.
8. I change, transform, turn, metamorphose.
9. I refer, ascribe, attribute, impute, throw blame, lay to the charge of.
10. I transfer, defer, put off, postpone, refer.

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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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “confero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    
• confero in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “conferre” on page 242/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)