Latin
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From dis- (“apart”) + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdɪf.fɛ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdif.fe.ro]
Verb
[edit]differō (present infinitive differre, perfect active distulī, supine dīlātum); third conjugation, suppletive
- (transitive) to carry different ways, spread, scatter, disperse, separate
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.3:
- Dum differtur vīta trānscurrit.
- While [one’s attention] is scattered, life rushes past.
[Alternatively, in context:]
While [our moral improvement] is delayed, life runs away.
- While [one’s attention] is scattered, life rushes past.
- Dum differtur vīta trānscurrit.
- (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, cū̆nctor, retardō, tardō, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō
- Antonyms: ruō, currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō
- c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.13.12:
- Spēs quae differtur adflīgit animam: lignum vītae dēsīderium veniēns.
- Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- Spēs quae differtur adflīgit animam: lignum vītae dēsīderium veniēns.
- (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.
Conjugation of differō (third conjugation, suppletive)
Derived terms
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[edit]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), volume 3: D–F, page 73
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