differo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.fe.roː/, [ˈd̪ɪfːɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.fe.ro/, [ˈd̪ifːero]
Verb edit
differō (present infinitive differre, perfect active distulī, supine dīlātum); third conjugation, irregular
- (transitive) to carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate
- (transitive, figuratively) to distract, disquiet or disturb someone; confound
- (transitive, figuratively) to spread, publish, circulate, divulge; cry down, defame
- (transitive, figuratively) to defer, put off, protract, delay, adjourn
- Synonyms: moror, dētineō, cūnctor, retardō, tardō, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō
- Antonyms: ruō, currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō
- (intransitive) to be different, differ, vary
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:
- Hī omnēs linguā, īnstitūtīs, lēgibus inter sē differunt.
- These all differ from each other in language, customs, and laws.
- Hī omnēs linguā, īnstitūtīs, lēgibus inter sē differunt.
Conjugation edit
Irregular, but resembling the third conjugation. The principal parts come from several different words originally.
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References edit
- “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[1], 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)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “differre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 73