profero

From prō- (“in front of”) +‎ ferō (“carry, bear”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.fe.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.fe.ro/,

prōferō (present infinitive prōferre, perfect active prōtulī, supine prōlātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. to bring out, bring forth

   Synonyms: praefero, induco, produco, affero, prōpōnō, perfero, edo

   Antonyms: auferō, tollō, adimō, rapiō, ēripiō, dīripiō, arceō, abdūcō

   signa proferre ― to push forward the army

   aliquid in medium proferre ― to expose something publicly

   aliquid in diem posterum proferre ― to postpone something until the following day

   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 2 18:

     Per idem tempus conditōrium et corpus Magnī Alexandrī, cum prōlātum ē penetrālī subiēcisset oculīs, corōnā aureā impositā ac flōribus aspersīs venerātus est cōnsultusque, num et Ptolemaeum īnspicere vellet, rēgem sē voluisse ait vidēre, nōn mortuōs.

     Around the same time he paid honours to the sarcophagus and body of Alexander the Great, when he examined it brought out of the mausoleum, by putting on it a golden crown and spreading flowers, and was asked whether he also wished to see the Ptolemaean mausoleum, he said that he wanted to see a king, not corpses.

   • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 1.126:

     'Prōfer, Galla, caput.' 'Nōlī vexāre, quiēscit.'

     'Bring out your head, Galla.' 'Don't disturb her, she's resting.'

2. to make known, produce in public, publish, reveal

   Synonyms: praebeō, ostendō, ostentō, prōdō, indicō, prōpōnō, expōnō, prōtrahō, profiteor, vulgō, gerō, praestō, coarguō, fateor, acclārō

3. to appear, show oneself

   Synonyms: prōcēdō, appāreō, obversor, cresco, exorior, orior, coorior

   Antonyms: concēdō, decēdō, cēdō, intereō

4. to offer, proffer, present

   Synonyms: offerō, expōnō, praebeō, obiciō, porrigō, afferō, prōpōnō, sufferō, polliceor, dōnō, condōnō, largior, moveō

5. to stretch out, extend

   Synonyms: extendō, distendō, prōlongō, pandō, porrigō, prōtrahō, explicō, trahō

   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.14.3:

     Habēbat autem iūs prōferendī pōmēriī quī populum Rōmānum agrō dē hostibus captō auxerat.

     He who had enlarged the Roman peoples with captured land had the right of extending the Pomerium.

6. (military) to march on, advance
7. (figuratively) to produce, induce growth
8. to utter, pronounce
9. to put off, defer, adjourn
10. (painting) to bring out, represent distinctly
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.56:

      Cīmōnem Cleōnaeum. Hic catagrapha invēnit, hoc est oblīquās imāginēs, et variē fōrmāre voltūs, respicientēs suspicientēsve vel dēspicientēs; articulīs membra distīnxit, vēnās prōtulit, praeterque in vestibus rūgās et sinūs invēnit.

      Cimon of Cleonae. He invented profile paintings, that is, side-views, and fashioning faces in different ways: looking back, up or down; he distinguished members from joints, brought out the veins, and beside that devised creases and folds in clothes.

11. (figuratively, with se) to raise or elevate oneself from a lower station
12. to make known, publicize
13. to discover, invent

    Synonym: inveniō

14. to quote, cite, mention
    • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Phormio 2.3.48:

      DEMIPHO. Dī tibi maleficiant! PHORMIO. Prīmus essēs memoriter
      prōgeniem vestram ūsque ab avō atque atavō prōferēns.

      DEMIPHO. May the Gods confound you! PHORMIO. You'd have been the first, from memory,
      to cite your line of kindred, even as far back as from grandfather and great-grandfather.

15. to impel
16. to prolong

• → English: profer, prolate, profert
• → French: proférer
• → Italian: proferire
• → Spanish: proferir

• “profero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “profero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• profero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
    
  • to enlarge the boundaries of a kingdom: fines (imperii) propagare, extendere, (longius) proferre
    
  • to adjourn, delay: diem proferre (Att. 13. 14)
    
  • to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
  • to cite a person or a thing as an example: aliquem (aliquid) exempli causa ponere, proferre, nominare, commemorare
    
  • to bring a subject forward into discussion: in medium proferre aliquid
    
  • to quote a passage of Plato: locum Platonis afferre, proferre (not citare)
    
  • to produce as a witness: aliquem testem dare, edere, proferre