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Latin
Etymology
From trāns- (“beyond”) + ferō (“I bear, carry”).
Pronunciation
Verb
trānsferō (present infinitive trānsferre, perfect active trānstulī, supine trānslātum); third conjugation, irregular
- to bear, carry or bring across or over; transport, transfer, convey over
- Synonyms: trādō, dēdō, concēdō, dēferō, asportō, trānsportō, trānsvehō, auferō, efferō
- Cur non illam huc transferri iubes? ― Why don't you command her to be brought over hither?
- to copy, transcribe, transfer
- to carry along in public, display in procession, bear in triumph
- to put off, defer, postpone, delay, transfer
- to translate into another language; interpret
- Synonym: vertō
- to transfer in meaning, use figuratively or tropically
- to apply, make use of
- to change, transform
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References
- “transfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “transfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- transfero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
- to transplant to Rome one of the branches of poesy: poesis genus ad Romanos transferre
- to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre
- to translate from Plato: ab or de (not ex) Platone vertere, convertere, transferre
- to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus): ad verbum transferre, exprimere
- to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus): totidem verbis transferre
- to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
- to turn the conversation to another topic: sermonem alio transferre
- to put the blame on another: culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere
- the command is transferred, passes to some one: imperium transfertur ad aliquem (not transit)
- to transfer the seat of war elsewhere: bellum transferre alio, in...
- this can be said of..., applies to..: hoc transferri potest in aliquid
- transfero in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016