effero
Latin
FWOTD – 11 September 2014
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈef.fe.roː/, [ˈɛfːɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈef.fe.ro/, [ˈɛfːero]
Alternative forms
- ecferō
- exferō
Verb
efferō (present infinitive efferre, perfect active extulī, supine ēlātum); third conjugation, irregular
- to bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport
- to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, bury
- to bring forth, bear, produce, yield
- to emit, discharge, release, send out, send or bring forth
- to lift up, elevate, raise, exalt; display; rescue
- (figuratively) to set forth, spread abroad, utter, publish, proclaim, pronounce, express, declare, divulge, make known
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.1:
- Priusquam eorum clandestina consilia efferantur
- Before their secret plan be divulged
- Priusquam eorum clandestina consilia efferantur
- (figuratively, usually passive voice) to carry away, transport, hurry or sweep away
- (figuratively) to raise, elevate, exalt, extol
- (figuratively, of speech or writing) to exaggerate, aggrandize, embellish, increase
- (figuratively, with se) to elevate oneself; rise, advance
- (figuratively, with se) to be puffed up, to be made haughty or proud
- (figuratively, rare) to carry out to the end, support, endure
Conjugation
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Related terms
Descendants
- → English: elate
Alternative forms
Verb
efferō (present infinitive efferāre, perfect active efferāvī, supine efferātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
Descendants
- → English: efferate
Etymology 3
Inflected form of efferus (“very wild, fierce or savage”).
References
- “effero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
- to be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost): funere efferri or simply efferri (publice; publico, suo sumptu)
- Fortune exalts a man, makes him conspicuous: fortuna aliquem effert
- to be puffed up by success; to be made arrogant by prosperity: rebus secundis efferri
- to praise, extol, commend a person: (maximis, summis) laudibus efferre aliquem or aliquid
- to extol, laud to the skies: laudibus aliquem (aliquid) in caelum ferre, efferre, tollere
- to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus
- to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
- to be beside oneself with joy: gaudio, laetitia efferri
- to behave arrogantly: insolentius se efferre
- to be carried away by one's anger: iracundia efferri
- to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
- to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
- the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
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