aufero

Latin

Etymology

From ab- (“from, away, off”) +‎ ferō (“to bear, carry, bring”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.fe.roː/, [ˈäu̯fɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.fe.ro/, [ˈäːu̯fero]

Verb

auferō (present infinitive auferre, perfect active abstulī, supine ablātum); third conjugation, irregular

1. (literally) to take away, take off, bear away, bear off, carry off, remove, withdraw
   1. (usually poetic) (of bodies) to bear or carry away, sweep away by wings, the winds, waves, or any other quick motion; waft away, sweep away
   2. (figurative) to take away, carry off, etc.
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.28-29:

        “Ille meōs, prīmus quī mē sibi iūnxit, amōrēs
        abstulit; ille habeat sēcum servetque sepulchrō.”

        “That [man], who first joined himself to me, he has taken away all my love; may that [man] hold [it] with him, and guard [it] in his grave.”
        (Dido speaks of her dead husband, Sychaeus.)

   3. (figurative) to mislead, deceive
2. (especially):
   1. to take or snatch away; take by force, remove, take away violently, abduct, rob, steal, snatch, confiscate

      Synonyms: rapiō, abdūcō, dīripiō, ēripiō, adimō, exhauriō, fraudō, corripiō, āvertō, tollō, āmoveō, praedor, eximō, legō, agō

      auferre aliquid ab aliquo ― to steal something from someone

      alicui caput auferre ― to behead someone

      1. (poetic) to take off or away, destroy, kill, slay, consume
      2. to separate, sever, divide (of places)
   2. to lay aside (some action, manner of speaking, etc.); cease from, desist from, leave off

      coeptos auferte labores ― lay aside the works that have been started

   3. (metonymically) (effect for cause) to carry off (as the fruit or result of one's labor, exertions, errors, etc.); obtain, gain, get, receive, acquire
      1. (figurative) to carry away (the knowledge of a thing); learn, understand
3. to banish, dispel

   Synonyms: expellō, exsulō, āmoveō, exportō, ēiciō, ablēgō, eximō, fugō, pellō

Conjugation

Conjugation of auferō (third conjugation, irregular, suppletive)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	auferō	aufers	aufert	auferimus	aufertis	auferunt
	imperfect	auferēbam	auferēbās	auferēbat	auferēbāmus	auferēbātis	auferēbant
	future	auferam	auferēs	auferet	auferēmus	auferētis	auferent
	perfect	abstulī	abstulistī	abstulit	abstulimus	abstulistis	abstulērunt, abstulēre
	pluperfect	abstuleram	abstulerās	abstulerat	abstulerāmus	abstulerātis	abstulerant
	future perfect	abstulerō	abstuleris	abstulerit	abstulerimus	abstuleritis	abstulerint
passive	present	auferor	auferris, auferre	aufertur	auferimur	auferiminī	auferuntur
	imperfect	auferēbar	auferēbāris, auferēbāre	auferēbātur	auferēbāmur	auferēbāminī	auferēbantur
	future	auferar	auferēris, auferēre	auferētur	auferēmur	auferēminī	auferentur
	perfect	ablātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	ablātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	ablātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	auferam	auferās	auferat	auferāmus	auferātis	auferant
	imperfect	auferrem	auferrēs	auferret	auferrēmus	auferrētis	auferrent
	perfect	abstulerim	abstulerīs	abstulerit	abstulerīmus	abstulerītis	abstulerint
	pluperfect	abstulissem	abstulissēs	abstulisset	abstulissēmus	abstulissētis	abstulissent
passive	present	auferar	auferāris, auferāre	auferātur	auferāmur	auferāminī	auferantur
	imperfect	auferrer	auferrēris, auferrēre	auferrētur	auferrēmur	auferrēminī	auferrentur
	perfect	ablātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	ablātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	aufer	—	—	auferte	—
	future	—	aufertō	aufertō	—	aufertōte	auferuntō
passive	present	—	auferre	—	—	auferiminī	—
	future	—	aufertor	aufertor	—	—	auferuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		auferre	abstulisse	ablātūrum esse	auferrī	ablātum esse	ablātum īrī
participles		auferēns	—	ablātūrus	—	ablātus	auferendus, auferundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		auferendī	auferendō	auferendum	auferendō	ablātum	ablātū

Derived terms

• ablātiō (noun)
• ablātor (noun)
• ablātus (participle)

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

Descendants of aufero

• → English: ablate
• → French: affurer, ablater
• → Portuguese: auferir, abladar
• → Spanish: aferrar, abladar

References

• “aufero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aufero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• aufero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to carry some one away in one's arms: inter manus auferre aliquem
    
  • to win the prize: palmam ferre, auferre
    
  • to extract an answer from some one: responsum ab aliquo ferre, auferre
    
  • to deprive a person of hope: spem alicui adimere, tollere, auferre, eripere