Latin

Alternative forms

• ecferō
• exferō

Verb

efferō ‎(present infinitive efferre, perfect active extulī, supine ēlātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I bring or carry out, forth or away.
2. I carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, bury.
3. I bring forth, bear, produce, yield.
4. I emit, discharge, release, send out, send or bring forth.
5. I lift up, elevate, raise, exalt; display; rescue.
6. (figuratively) I set forth, spread abroad, utter, publish, proclaim, pronounce, express, declare.
7. (figuratively, usually passive) I carry away, transport, hurry or sweep away.
8. (figuratively) I raise, elevate, exalt, extol.
9. (figuratively, of speech or writing) I exaggerate, aggrandize, embellish, increase.
10. (figuratively, with se) I elevate myself; rise, advance.
11. (figuratively, with se) I am puffed up, I am haughty or proud.
12. (figuratively, rare) I carry out to the end, support, endure.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (send forth): ēmittō, iaciō, mittō

Derived terms

• ēlātē
• elātiō
• ēlātus

Related terms

Descendants

• English: elated

Etymology 2

From efferus ‎(“wild, savage”) +‎ -ō.

Alternative forms

• ecferō

Verb

efferō ‎(present infinitive efferāre, perfect active efferāvī, supine efferātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) I make wild or savage, brutalize, barbarize.
2. (transitive) I make fierce, infuriate, madden.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 3

Inflected form of efferus ‎(“very wild, fierce or savage”).

Adjective

efferō

1. dative masculine singular of efferus
2. dative neuter singular of efferus
3. ablative masculine singular of efferus
4. ablative neuter singular of efferus

References

• effero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• effero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “effero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
    
  • to be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost): funere efferri or simply efferri (publice; publico, suo sumptu)
    
  • Fortune exalts a man, makes him conspicuous: fortuna aliquem effert
    
  • to be puffed up by success; to be made arrogant by prosperity: rebus secundis efferri
    
  • to praise, extol, commend a person: (maximis, summis) laudibus efferre aliquem or aliquid
    
  • to extol, laud to the skies: laudibus aliquem (aliquid) in caelum ferre, efferre, tollere
    
  • to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
    
  • to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
  • to be beside oneself with joy: gaudio, laetitia efferri
    
  • to behave arrogantly: insolentius se efferre
    
  • to be carried away by one's anger: iracundia efferri
    
  • to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
    
  • to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre