Latin

Verb

trānsferō ‎(present infinitive trānsferre, perfect active trānstulī, supine trānslātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I bear, carry or bring across or over; transport, transfer.

   Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?

   Why don't you command her to be brought over hither?

2. I copy, transcribe, transfer.
3. I carry along in public, display in procession, bear in triumph.
4. I put off, defer, postpone, delay, transfer.
5. I translate into another language; interpret.
6. I transfer in meaning, use figuratively or tropically.
7. I apply, make use of.
8. I change, transform.

Inflection

Derived terms

• trānslātīcius
• trānslātiō
• trānslātor
• trānslātus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• transfero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transfero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “transfero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
    
  • to transplant to Rome one of the branches of poesy: poesis genus ad Romanos transferre
    
  • to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre
    
  • to translate from Plato: ab or de (not ex) Platone vertere, convertere, transferre
    
  • to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus): ad verbum transferre, exprimere
    
  • to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus): totidem verbis transferre
    
  • to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    
  • to turn the conversation to another topic: sermonem alio transferre
    
  • to put the blame on another: culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere
    
  • the command is transferred, passes to some one: imperium transfertur ad aliquem (not transit)
    
  • to transfer the seat of war elsewhere: bellum transferre alio, in...
    
  • this can be said of..., applies to..: hoc transferri potest in aliquid
    
• transfero in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016