perfero

From per- +‎ ferō (“bear, carry”). Cognate with Ancient Greek περῐφέρω (periphérō), Polish przebrać, Russian перебрать (perebratʹ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈper.fe.roː/, [ˈpɛrfɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.fe.ro/, [ˈpɛrfero]

perferō (present infinitive perferre, perfect active pertulī, supine perlātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. to bear, carry or convey through to a place or to the end; bring home

   Synonyms: ducō, deducō, producō, agō, traducō, vehō, portō

2. to convey news, announce, state
3. (figuratively) to bear, support or endure to the end
4. (figuratively) to bear, suffer, tolerate, put up with, submit to, endure

   Synonyms: tolerō, sustineō, sinō, perpetior, patiō, accipiō, recipiō, dūrō, subeō, admittō, sufferō, sustentō, ferō

5. (figuratively) to bring to an end, carry out, complete, finish, accomplish

   Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, dēfungor, absolvō, conclūdō, condō, agō, expleō, patrō, cumulō, impleō, efficiō, peragō, exsequor, fungor, perpetrō, gerō, nāvō, persolvō, trānsigō, claudō, inclūdō, exhauriō

6. (figuratively) to carry out, conduct, maintain, manage
7. (Ecclesiastical Latin) to bear the penalty of

• perferēns
• perferentia

• “perfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “perfero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• perfero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take a letter somewhere: litteras perferre aliquo
    
  • to carry a law (said of the magistrate): legem perferre (Liv. 33. 46)
    
  • a law is adopted: lex perfertur
    
  • to suffer punishment: poenam (alicuius rei) ferre, perferre