differo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.fe.roː/, [ˈdɪf.fɛ.roː]
Verb
differō (present infinitive differre, perfect active distulī, supine dīlātum); third conjugation, irregular
- (transitive) I carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate.
- (transitive, figuratively) I distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound.
- (transitive, figuratively) I spread, publish, circulate, divulge; cry down, defame.
- (transitive, figuratively) I defer, put off, protract, delay, adjourn.
- (intransitive) I am different, differ, vary.
Inflection
Irregular, but resembling the third conjugation. The principal parts come from several different words originally.
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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
- the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
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