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Latin
Etymology
From per- + ferō (“bear, carry”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περῐφέρω (periphérō), Polish przebrać, Russian перебрать (perebratʹ).
Pronunciation
Verb
perferō (present infinitive perferre, perfect active pertulī, supine perlātum); third conjugation, irregular
- to bear, carry or convey through to a place or to the end; bring home
- Synonyms: ducō, deducō, producō, agō, traducō, vehō, portō
- to convey news, announce, state
- (figuratively) to bear, support or endure to the end
- (figuratively) to bear, suffer, tolerate, put up with, submit to, endure
- Synonyms: tolerō, sustineō, sinō, perpetior, patiō, accipiō, recipiō, dūrō, subeō, admittō, sufferō, sustentō, ferō
- (figuratively) to bring to an end, carry out, complete, finish, accomplish
- Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, dēfungor, absolvō, conclūdō, condō, agō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, impleō, efficiō, peragō, exsequor, fungor, perpetrō, gerō, nāvō, persolvō, trānsigō, claudō, inclūdō, exhauriō
- (figuratively) to carry out, conduct, maintain, manage
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) to bear the penalty of
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References
- “perfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perfero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take a letter somewhere: litteras perferre aliquo
- to carry a law (said of the magistrate): legem perferre (Liv. 33. 46)
- a law is adopted: lex perfertur
- to suffer punishment: poenam (alicuius rei) ferre, perferre