deferent
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);
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...arcesse homines, qui illunc ad me deferant. SEN. Quot sunt satis? MED. Proinde ut insanire video, quattuor, nihilo..." - P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...bono animo es: iam argentum ad eam deferes quod pollicitu's. CL. garris. unde? SY. a t patre..." - P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...pulcherrima Nautes dat senior; lectos iuvenes, fortissima corda, defer in Italiam. gens dura atque aspera cultu debellanda tibi..." - P
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fatisque datas non respicit urbes, adloquere et celeris defer mea dicta per auras. non illum nobis genetrix pulcherrima..."