refert
Latin
Etymology 1
A compound of rē, the ablative singular of rēs (“matter”), and ferō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈreː.fɛrt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrɛː.fert̪]
Verb
rēfert (present infinitive rēferre, perfect active rētulit); third conjugation, suppletive, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem
- to matter, to be important [with feminine ablative singular possessive determiner ‘to someone’]
- Synonym: interest
- Hoc meā rēfert. ― This matters to me.
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | rēfert | — | — | — | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | rēferēbat | — | — | — | |||||||
| future | — | — | rēferet | — | — | — | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | rētulit | — | — | — | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | rētulerat | — | — | — | |||||||
| future perfect | — | — | rētulerit | — | — | — | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | rēferat | — | — | — | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | rēferret | — | — | — | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | rētulerit | — | — | — | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | rētulisset | — | — | — | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | future | — | — | rēfertō | — | — | — | ||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | rēferre | — | rēferēns | — | |||||||||
| perfect | rētulisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| rēferendī | rēferendō | rēferendum | rēferendō | — | — | ||||||||
Etymology 2
See referō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈrɛ.fɛrt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrɛː.fert̪]
Verb
refert
- third-person singular present active indicative of referō
References
- “refert”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “refert”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- refert in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- refert in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016