aufero

From ab- (“from, away, off”) +‎ ferō (“to bear, carry, bring”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.fe.roː/, [ˈäu̯fɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.fe.ro/, [ˈäːu̯fero]

auferō (present infinitive auferre, perfect active abstulī, supine ablātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. (literally) to take away, take off, bear away, bear off, carry off, remove, withdraw
   1. (usually poetic) (of bodies) to bear or carry away, sweep away by wings, the winds, waves, or any other quick motion; waft away, sweep away
   2. (figurative) to take away, carry off, etc.
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.28-29:

        “Ille meōs, prīmus quī mē sibi iūnxit, amōrēs
        abstulit; ille habeat sēcum servetque sepulchrō.”

        “That [man], who first joined himself to me, he has taken away all my love; may that [man] hold [it] with him, and guard [it] in his grave.”
        (Dido speaks of her dead husband, Sychaeus.)

   3. (figurative) to mislead, deceive
2. (especially):
   1. to take or snatch away; take by force, remove, take away violently, abduct, rob, steal, snatch, confiscate

      Synonyms: rapiō, abdūcō, dīripiō, ēripiō, adimō, exhauriō, fraudō, corripiō, āvertō, tollō, āmoveō, praedor, eximō, legō, agō

      auferre aliquid ab aliquo ― to steal something from someone

      alicui caput auferre ― to behead someone

      1. (poetic) to take off or away, destroy, kill, slay, consume
      2. to separate, sever, divide (of places)
   2. to lay aside (some action, manner of speaking, etc.); cease from, desist from, leave off

      coeptos auferte labores ― lay aside the works that have been started

   3. (metonymically) (effect for cause) to carry off (as the fruit or result of one's labor, exertions, errors, etc.); obtain, gain, get, receive, acquire
      1. (figurative) to carry away (the knowledge of a thing); learn, understand
3. to banish, dispel

   Synonyms: expellō, exsulō, āmoveō, exportō, ēiciō, ablēgō, eximō, fugō, pellō

• ablātiō (noun)
• ablātor (noun)
• ablātus (participle)

• “aufero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aufero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• aufero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to carry some one away in one's arms: inter manus auferre aliquem
    
  • to win the prize: palmam ferre, auferre
    
  • to extract an answer from some one: responsum ab aliquo ferre, auferre
    
  • to deprive a person of hope: spem alicui adimere, tollere, auferre, eripere