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Latin
Etymology
From dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
Verb
differō (present infinitive differre, perfect active distulī, supine dīlātum); third conjugation, suppletive
- (transitive) to carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate
- Synonyms: diffundō, fundō, effundō, cōnfundō, dēfundō, dissipō, indūcō, sternō
c. 4 BCE – 65 CE,
Seneca the Younger,
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.3:
- Dum differtur vīta trānscurrit.
- While is scattered, life rushes past.
While is delayed, life runs away.
- (transitive, figuratively) to distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound
- Synonyms: disturbō, turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, agitō
- (transitive, figuratively) to spread, publish, circulate, divulge; cry down, defame
- (transitive, figuratively) to defer, put off, protract, delay, adjourn
- Synonyms: moror, dētineō, cū̆nctor, retardō, tardō, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō
- Antonyms: ruō, currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.13.12:
- Spēs quae differtur adflīgit animam: lignum vītae dēsīderium veniēns.
- Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- (intransitive) to be different, differ, vary
- Synonyms: distō, dissideō, abhorreō
Conjugation
Irregular, but resembling the third conjugation. The principal parts come from several different words originally.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “differo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “differo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- differo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
- to put off till another time; to postpone: aliquid in aliud tempus, in posterum differre
- to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre
- to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “differre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 73