Latin

Verb

dēferō ‎(present infinitive dēferre, perfect active dētulī, supine dēlātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I bear, carry or bring down or away; convey; take, remove.
2. I bring to market, sell.
3. I give to someone, grant, confer upon, allot, offer to someone, bestow
4. I transfer, deliver.
5. I bring or give an account of, report, announce, state.
6. (law, with nomen) I report someone's name before the praetor, as plaintiff or informer; indict, impeach, denounce, accuse.
7. (nautical) I arrive or disembark.

Inflection

Derived terms

• dēferēns
• dēlātiō
• dēlātor
• dēlātūra

Related terms

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “defero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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