transfero
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtrans.fe.roː/, [ˈtrãːs.fɛ.roː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtrans.fe.ro/
Verb
trānsferō (present infinitive trānsferre, perfect active trānstulī, supine trānslātum); third conjugation, irregular
- I bear, carry or bring across or over; transport, transfer.
- Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?
- Why don't you command her to be brought over hither?
- Cur non illam huc transferri iubes?
- I copy, transcribe, transfer.
- I carry along in public, display in procession, bear in triumph.
- I put off, defer, postpone, delay, transfer.
- I translate into another language; interpret.
- I transfer in meaning, use figuratively or tropically.
- I apply, make use of.
- I change, transform.
Inflection
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Descendants
- → Albanian: transferoj
- → Catalan: transferir
- → English: transfer
- → French: transférer
- → Ladino: trasferir
- → Norman: transféther
- → Portuguese: transferir
- → Spanish: transferir
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
- to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
- transfero in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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