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auferre

auferre is a Latin form of aufero, meaning “carry off, take away”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 78 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.41: … ant quantum sibi ac liberis suis satis esse arbitretur; nunc, quod eius modi iudicia sint tantum unum quemque auferre quantum sibi, patronis, advocatis, praetori, iudicibus satis futurum sit; hoc profecto infinitum esse; se ava …

Plautus, Aulularia 4.4.636c: Auferre non potes.

All forms of aufero (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.