deferebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defero, deferre, detuli, delatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carry/bring/sink/fall down/off; convey/deliver/transfer; reduce/slope (down to);; flow/carry/run down (to sea); pay/remit; deposit/record/register; bear/produce;; bring/lodge information (about), report; indict, accuse, denounce; defer (to);; offer; bestow upon, confer/award/grant, entrust; submit, refer for decision;; honor; export (medieval usage);
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quando et quemadmodum adgredi vellet; unus ex consciis deferebat. 3. Constituit se ab eo vindicare et consilium amicorum..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...genere Cicero quidem, qui mandantibus sociis Verrem deferebat, hac usus est divisione: spectandum a quo maxime agi velint..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...fidem exueret clamitans, ferrum a latere diripuit elatumque deferebat in pectus, ni proximi prensam dextram vi attinuissent. extrema..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...quod secundum consulatum recepisti, quia princeps et pater deferebat. At postquam ad te imperii summam, et quum omnium..."