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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la ferō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdeː.fɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɛː.fe.ro]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''dēferō''' (present infinitive dēferre, perfect active dētulī, supine dēlātum); third conjugation, suppletive^(Wiktionary)
+ The perfect is ''dētulī'' and the participle ''dēlātus''; an inscription has ''ditul-''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[dē-]] “down, away” and [[ferō]] “to carry”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of carrying someone or something to a place.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to carry a person or thing to a place, to deliver, as in Plautus, and in Lucretius to bring down, as a crown from Helicon.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero rivers carry things downstream, and in Accius winds carry ships to land.^(OLD 2012) In Terence it meant to transfer elsewhere, and in Plautus to pay over money.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to report, to entrust a task, and to confer an honour, and in Tacitus to inform against, denounce.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to bring, bring down, submit, report.^(Stelten 1995) Its participle ''dēlātus'' gave ''dēlātor'' “informer”, and Spanish and Catalan ''delatar'' “to denounce”, and [[en|delate]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of carrying and paying over.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of reporting and conferring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of denouncing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To carry, bring, [[m|en|deliver]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To bring down; to carry downstream or to land.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To transfer; to pay over.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|report]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To inform against, [[m|en|denounce]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To entrust; to confer (an honour).^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[dēlātiō]]
+ * [[dēlātō]]
+ * [[dēlātor]]
+ * [[dēlātūra]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[adferō]]
+ * [[afferō]]
+ * [[auferō]]
+ * [[circumferō]]
+ * [[cōnferō]]
+ * [[dēlātōrius]]
+ * [[differō]]
+ * [[efferō]]
+ * [[ferō]]
+ * [[īnferō]]
+ * [[en|delate]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}