confero

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkõː.fɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɱ.fe.ro]

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

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 cōnferre cum aliquō ― to go 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
   • 69 BCE, Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei 16.49:

     ...dubitatis, Quirites, quin hoc tantum boni quod vobis ab dis immortalibus oblatum et datum est in rem publicam conservandam atque amplificandam conferatis?

     ...Citizens, why do you hesitate to employ such a great boon given to you by the gods for the preservation and augmentation of the Republic?

9. to pay in, contribute, be profitable, be of use

   Synonyms: prōficiō, prōsum, adiuvō, expediō

10. to change, transform, turn, metamorphose

    Synonyms: alterō, trānsferō, 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 (16 July 2016 (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