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
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..."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..."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..."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..."