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deferret

deferret is a Latin form of defero, meaning “bring down; report; offer”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.27.3: Hunc illi e navi egressum, cum ad eos oratoris modo Caesaris mandata deferret, comprehenderant atque in vincula coniecerant;

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 16.100.12: … erent et ad imitationem sui evocarent sine desperatione vincendi, quae mihi adhortatio videtur efficacissima. Deferret enim qui imitandi cupiditatem fecit, spem abstulit. Ceterum verbis abundabat, sine commendatione partium sing …

All forms of defero (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.