aufero

Etymology

From au- (“from, away, off”) +‎ ferō (“to bear, carry, bring”). Whether the prefix au- is identical to ab- is the source of much controversy; see au- for more.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯.fɛ.roː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaːu̯.fe.ro]

Verb

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

(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
(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. (metonymic) (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
to banish, dispel
Synonyms: expellō, exsulō, āmoveō, exportō, ēiciō, ablēgō, eximō, fugō, pellō

Conjugation

Conjugation of auferō (third conjugation, suppletive)

More information indicative, singular ...

Derived terms

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

Related terms

Descendants

→ 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, 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

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		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
subjunctive		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
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	aufer		—	—	auferte		—
active	future	—	aufertō		aufertō	—	aufertōte		auferuntō
passive	present	—	auferre		—	—	auferiminī		—
passive	future	—	aufertor		aufertor	—	—		auferuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		auferre		auferrī		auferēns		—
future		ablātūrum esse		ablātum īrī		ablātūrus		auferendus, auferundus
perfect		abstulisse		ablātum esse		—		ablātus
future perfect		—		ablātum fore		—		—
perfect potential		ablātūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		auferendī	auferendō		auferendum	auferendō	ablātum		ablātū

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