# effero
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈef.fe.roː/, [ˈɛfːɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈef.fe.ro/, [ˈɛfːero]

### Etymology 1

From ex- (“out of”) +‎ ferō (“carry, bear”).

#### Alternative forms

* ecferō
* exferō

#### Verb

efferō (present infinitive efferre, perfect active extulī, supine ēlātum); third conjugation, suppletive
* to bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport
* to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, bury
* to bring forth, bear, produce, yield
* to emit, discharge, release, send out, send or bring forth
* to lift up, elevate, raise, exalt; display; rescue
* (figuratively) to set forth, spread abroad, utter, publish, proclaim, pronounce, express, declare, divulge, make known
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.1:Priusquam eorum clandestina consilia efferanturBefore their secret plan be divulged
* (figuratively, usually passive voice) to carry away, transport, hurry or sweep away
* (figuratively) to raise, elevate, exalt, extol
* (figuratively, of speech or writing) to exaggerate, aggrandize, embellish, increase
* (figuratively, with se) to elevate oneself; rise, advance
* (figuratively, with se) to be puffed up, to be made haughty or proud
* (figuratively, rare) to carry out to the end, support, endure

##### Synonyms

* (carry, transport): ferō, portō, vehō, gerō, trahō, asportō, trānsportō, trānsferō, trānsvehō, ēvehō
* (send forth): ēmittō, iaciō, mittō, praefero, profero
* (lift): levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, ēvehō, scandō, surgō, sublīmō, ēdō
* (make known): ostendo, propono, prodo

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “lift”): abiciō, deicio

##### Derived terms

* ēlātē
* elātiō
* ēlātus

##### Related terms

* adferō, afferō
* auferō
* circumferō
* cōnferō
* dēferō
* differō
* ferō
* īnferō
* interferō
* intrōferō
* offerō
* perferō
* postferō
* praeferō
* praeterferor
* prōferō
* referō
* sufferō
* trānsferō

##### Descendants

* → English: elate

### Etymology 2

From efferus (“wild, savage”) +‎ -ō.

#### Alternative forms

* ecferō

#### Verb

efferō (present infinitive efferāre, perfect active efferāvī, supine efferātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to make wild or savage, brutalize, barbarize
    Antonyms: mītigō, lēniō
* (transitive) to make fierce, infuriate, madden

##### Derived terms

* efferāscō
* efferātē
* efferātiō
* efferātus
* efferus

##### Related terms

* efferitās
* fera
* fericulus
* ferīnus
* feritās
* ferus
* sēmifer

##### Descendants

* → English: efferate

### Etymology 3

Inflected form of efferus (“very wild, fierce or savage”).

#### Adjective

efferō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of efferus

### References

* “effero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “effero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* effero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges to be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost): funere efferri or simply efferri (publice; publico, suo sumptu) Fortune exalts a man, makes him conspicuous: fortuna aliquem effert to be puffed up by success; to be made arrogant by prosperity: rebus secundis efferri to praise, extol, commend a person: (maximis, summis) laudibus efferre aliquem or aliquid to extol, laud to the skies: laudibus aliquem (aliquid) in caelum ferre, efferre, tollere to divulge, make public: efferre or edere aliquid in vulgus to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare to be beside oneself with joy: gaudio, laetitia efferri to behave arrogantly: insolentius se efferre to be carried away by one's anger: iracundia efferri to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre