infero
Dictionary entries
- Entry →infero, inferre, intuli, illatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bring/carry in, import; advance, bring/march/step/move foward; impel, urge;; inflict/cause/inflict/impose/inspire (w/DAT); [bellum inferre => make war on];; put/throw/thrust in/on, insert; bury/inter; pay; charge as expense; append;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st - Entry →infer, infera -um, inferior -or -us, infumus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
below, beneath, underneath; of hell; vile; lower, further down; lowest, last;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →inferus, infera -um, inferior -or -us, infimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
below, beneath, underneath; of hell; vile; lower, further down; lowest, last;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →inferus, inferi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
those below (pl.), the dead;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...momentum apud nos habet consensus hominum aut timentium inferos aut colentium. Utor hac publica persuasione: neminem invenies..." - L
Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...subit alius metus: aeque enim timent ne apud inferos sint quam ne nusquam. His adversantibus quae nobis offundit..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...alteram perpetuamque noctem: deinde, cum ista fecerunt, inferos metuunt! [16,1] Sed ut ad id, de quo agitur..." - L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...populum in diuersa effudit; totum Italiae latus quod infero mari adluitur maior Graecia fuit. Tuscos Asia sibi uindicat..." - L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...Cogita nullis defunctum malis adfici, illa quae nobis inferos faciunt terribiles, fabulas esse, nullas imminere mortuis tenebras..." - L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...specu, incertus utras oderim sedes magis: fugio Thyestes inferos, superos fugo. En horret animus et pauor membra excutit..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ratis aequoris nullo remigio uenit. Sic cum uinceret inferos Orpheus carmine funditus, consumptos iterum deae supplent Eurydices colus..." - A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...libro sexto scriptum est. II. Palinurus est aput inferos petens ab Aenea, ut suum corpus requirendum et sepeliendum..."
