defers
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...arcesse homines, qui illunc ad me deferant. SEN. Quot sunt satis? MED. Proinde ut insanire video, quattuor, nihilo..."Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...bono animo es: iam argentum ad eam deferes quod pollicitu's. CL. garris. unde? SY. a t patre..."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..."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..."