confero

From con- (“together”) +‎ ferō (“I bear”). Compare Polish zebrać (“to collect”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.fe.roː/, [ˈkõːfɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.fe.ro/, [ˈkɔɱfero]

cōnferō (present infinitive cōnferre, perfect active contulī, supine collātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. to bring or collect together, gather; unite, join, connect

   Synonyms: compellō, convehō, stīpō, cōgō, congerō, cōnstruō, cōnserō, concitō, contribuō, committō, concieō, contrahō, reficiō

2. to bring or place together or near, set in opposition, oppose, match; bring into hostile contact
3. to bring together for comparison, compare, contrast

   Synonyms: aequō, contendō, comparō

4. to consult, confer, consider, deliberate, talk over, discuss; exchange (words)
5. to compress, abridge, condense, sum up
6. to bear, carry, convey, direct, take, bring

   signa conferre cum aliquo ― to go for fight with someone

7. to collect money, treasures, etc., for any object, bring offerings, contribute
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita II.9:

     ut divites conferrent

     • Translation by Spillan

       that the riches should contribute

8. to devote, apply to, employ, use, direct, bestow upon, confer, grant
9. to pay in, contribute, be profitable, be of use

   Synonyms: prōficiō, prōsum, adiuvō

10. to change, transform, turn, metamorphose

    Synonyms: mūtō, vertō, versō, commūtō

11. to refer, ascribe, attribute, impute, throw blame, lay to the charge of
12. to transfer, remove, defer, put off, postpone, refer

• “confero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go to a place: se conferre in aliquem locum
    
  • to employ one's time in..: tempus conferre ad aliquid
    
  • to contribute alms: stipem (pecuniam) conferre
    
  • to employ in the furtherance of one's interests: aliquid in usum suum conferre
    
  • to show kindness to..: benevolentiam alicui praestare, in aliquem conferre
    
  • to heap benefits upon..: beneficia in aliquem conferre
    
  • to gain some one's friendship; to become intimate with: ad alicuius amicitiam se conferre, se applicare
    
  • to expend great labour on a thing: operam alicui rei tribuere, in aliquid conferre
    
  • to give all one's attention to a thing: omnes cogitationes ad aliquid conferre
    
  • to employ all one's energies on literary work: omne studium in litteris collocare, ad litteras conferre
    
  • to become a pupil, disciple of some one: operam dare or simply se dare alicui, se tradere in disciplinam alicuius, se conferre, se applicare ad aliquem
    
  • to devote oneself to philosophy: se conferre ad philosophiam, ad philosophiae or sapientiae studium (Fam. 4. 3. 4)
    
  • to devote oneself to writing history: ad historiam (scribendam) se conferre or se applicare
    
  • to devote oneself to the study of a natural science: se conferre ad naturae investigationem
    
  • to devote oneself to poetry: se conferre ad poesis studium
    
  • to devote oneself to oratory: ad dicendum se conferre
    
  • to become a writer, embrace a literary career: ad scribendum or ad scribendi studium se conferre
    
  • to put oneself under some one's protection: se conferre, se tradere, se permittere in alicuius fidem
    
  • to be courteous, obliging to some one: in aliquem officia conferre
    
  • to enter into conversation with some one: sermonem conferre, instituere, ordiri cum aliquo
    
  • to put our heads together: capita conferre (Liv. 2. 45)
    
  • to devote oneself to politics, a political career: accedere, se conferre ad rem publicam
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre
    
  • to devote oneself body and soul to the good of the state: totum et animo et corpore in salutem rei publicae se conferre
    
  • to put the blame on another: culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere
    
  • with close ranks; with ranks in disorder: confertis, solutis ordinibus
    
  • to come to close quarters: signa conferre cum hoste
    
  • to fight in open order: laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
    
  • to take to flight: se conicere, se conferre in fugam
    
• confero in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “conferre”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 242/2
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti