Latin

Verb

referō ‎(present infinitive referre, perfect active rettulī, supine relātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. I bear, bring, drive or carry back.
2. I give back, give up, return, restore, pay back, repay.
3. (of sound) I bring back, return, answer, echo.
4. I bring back, restore, renew, revive, repeat.
5. I say in return, respond, reply, answer.
6. I repeat, report, announce, relate, recount, tell, say
7. I make known officially, report, announce, notify, proclaim.

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Usage notes

• The forms "rettul..." are also found as "retul...".

References

• refero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• refero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “refero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to retreat step by step: gradum sensim referre
    
  • to consider one's own advantage in everything: omnia ad suam utilitatem referre
    
  • to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
    
  • to return like for like: par pari referre
    
  • to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
    
  • the book is attributed to an unknown writer: liber refertur ad nescio quem auctorem
    
  • to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
    
  • to make virtue the standard in every thought and act: omnia consilia et facta ad virtutem referre (Phil. 10. 10. 20)
    
  • to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: dirigere or referre aliquid ad aliquam rem
    
  • to deify a person: aliquem in deorum numerum referre, reponere
    
  • to consider as a god: aliquem in deorum numero referre
    
  • to book a debt: nomina facere or in tabulas referre
    
  • to put down to a man's credit: alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170)
    
  • to retire into private life: in otium se referre (Fam. 99)
    
  • to consider a thing from a political point of view: ad rei publicae rationes aliquid referre
    
  • to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
    
  • to place a person's name on the list of the proscribed: in proscriptorum numerum referre aliquem (Rosc. Am. 11. 32)
    
  • to bring a question before the senate (of the presiding magistrate): ad senatum referre (Cic. Dom. 53. 136)
    
  • to enter a thing in the public records: in tabulas publicas referre aliquid
    
  • to put some one on the list of the accused: referre in reos aliquem
    
  • to retire (without turning one's back on the enemy): pedem referre
    
  • to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam ferre, referre
    
• Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. LaFleur (2000), Wheelock's Latin (6th edition), HarperCollins: New York, ISBN 0-06-095641-0