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Latin
Etymology
From re- + ferō (“bear, carry”).
Pronunciation
Verb
referō (present infinitive referre, perfect active rettulī, supine relātum); third conjugation, irregular
- to bear, bring, drive or carry back
- Synonym: reveho
- to give back, give up, return, restore, pay back, repay, pay in return, show one's gratitude
- (of sound) to bring back, return, answer, echo, resound
- to bring back, restore, renew, revive, repeat
- to say in return, respond, reply, answer, represent
- Synonyms: respondeo, occurro
- to call to mind, recall, think over, call back to memory, repeat one's self
- Synonyms: memorō, admoneō, moneō, retineō, meminī, redūcō
- Antonyms: oblīvīscor, oblitterō
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 2.104:
- liceat sūmpta pauca referre lyra
- Let me take up my lyre to recall a few .
- to reconsider
- to refer to, assign to, give credit for
- to judge by, measure according to a certain standard
- to restore, renew, revive, repeat
- Synonyms: iterō, integrō, redintegrō, renovō, novō, reficiō, reparō
- (news or message) relate, recount, tell, say
- Synonyms: oro, alloquor, loquor, for, aio, alloquor, loquor, colloquor
- (matter of import, to the senate) to bring before, refer to
- Synonym: propono
- (name or item in a list) to include, enter
- to make known officially, report, deliver, transmit, announce, notify, proclaim, register, record
- Synonyms: dēnūntiō, adnuntio, nuntio, indico, renūntiō, nū̆ncupō, profiteor, dēferō, prōdō, ēdīcō, praedicō, cōntiōnor
- (passive) to retreat, go back, withdraw, return
- Synonyms: facessō, dēcēdō, discēdō, cēdō, dēficiō, concēdō, excēdō, regredior, subtrahō, subdūcō, inclīnō, recēdō, āmoveō, recipiō, vertō
- Antonyms: prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, aggredior, ēvehō, incēdō, accēdō, adeō
- to tell, recount, narrate
- Synonyms: ferō, prōdō, pandō, trādō, dicitur
Usage notes
- The forms "rettul..." are also found as "retul...".
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References
- “refero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “refero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- refero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- refero in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to retreat step by step: gradum sensim referre
- to consider one's own advantage in everything: omnia ad suam utilitatem referre
- to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
- to return like for like: par pari referre
- to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
- the book is attributed to an unknown writer: liber refertur ad nescio quem auctorem
- to enter a thing in one's note-book: aliquid in commentarios suos referre (Tusc. 3. 22. 54)
- to make virtue the standard in every thought and act: omnia consilia et facta ad virtutem referre (Phil. 10. 10. 20)
- to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: dirigere or referre aliquid ad aliquam rem
- to deify a person: aliquem in deorum numerum referre, reponere
- to consider as a god: aliquem in deorum numero referre
- to book a debt: nomina facere or in tabulas referre
- to put down to a man's credit: alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170)
- to retire into private life: in otium se referre (Fam. 99)
- to consider a thing from a political point of view: ad rei publicae rationes aliquid referre
- to record in the official tablets (Annales maximi): in album referre (De Or. 2. 12. 52)
- to place a person's name on the list of the proscribed: in proscriptorum numerum referre aliquem (Rosc. Am. 11. 32)
- to bring a question before the senate (of the presiding magistrate): ad senatum referre (Cic. Dom. 53. 136)
- to enter a thing in the public records: in tabulas publicas referre aliquid
- to put some one on the list of the accused: referre in reos aliquem
- to retire (without turning one's back on the enemy): pedem referre
- to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam ferre, referre
- Frederic M. Wheelock and Richard A. LaFleur (2000), Wheelock's Latin (6th edition), HarperCollins: New York, →ISBN