rĕfĕro
anomalous transitive and intransitive verb

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1 to bring, to carry back, to bring again, to bring home
2 to move, to draw, to force back, to withdraw
3 to go back, to return
4 to report (on), to bring back news
5 to record, to enter
6 to propose, to open debate
7 to assign, to count
8 to give, to pay back, to render, to tender
9 to restore
10 to redirect
11 to revive, to repeat
12 to recall

Locutions, idioms and examples

aliquid ad aliquid refero || aliquid alicui refero || vultum os alicuius refero || alicui pro aliqua re gratiam refero || ad pectus refero || animum ad aliquem or aliquid refero || aliquid ad amicitiam refero || alicui mandata refero || alicui laetifica refero || alicui gratias refero || ad amicos rettulit = he told the deed to someone || ad philosophiam me refero || ad animum (o mecum) refero = to bring back to mind, to recall || aliquid ad tabulas refero || ad ora refero || de aliqua re ad aliquem refero || fabulam refero || fabellas refero || in numerum refero || gratiam refero || aliquid in publicum refero || gradum or gradus refero || in acceptum refero || aliquem in reos refero || aliquem or aliquid domum refero || expensum (re)fero || habeo et refero gratiam || animum ad studia refero || ad senatum de aliqua re refero || sacrilegii sui manubias rettulit || ad eum de re publica rettulisti? = did you relate to him the situation of the State? || absentem aliquem refero in reos = to write on the list of the accused someone in absentia || Auster me Regium rettulit || atque haec pompa domum me non Pallanta referret || salutem reddo or refero || alienos mores ad suos refero || aestus te in portum refert || caput unctius refero || Aeneas qui te ore referret || aliquid in acta refero or mitto || ad aerarium rationes refero = to remit one's accounts to the treasury || os vultumque alicuius refero || Aesopus talem fabellam rettulit || aliquid memoriae causa refero in libellum || ad nomen caput ille refert || aliquem in Deorum numero or numerum or in Deos repono or refero || ad patrios arma refero deos || o mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos || tacita mente visa refert || de aliqua re ad pontificum collegium refero || gressum or pedem, or vestigia refero || aliquid acceptum alicui facio or fero, or refero || Caesar de immodestia histrionum rettulit || animum refero ad mansuetiores Musas || vocem multiplicato sono referunt || candelabrum tollere incipiunt, ut referrent || Africanum refero in eundem numerum || ab illo ad nos intolerabilia postulata rettulerunt = they reported to us unacceptable demands on his part || aquilam suis umeris in castra refero || acceptum refero (o fero o facio) (+ dative) = register with the revenue (fiscal) chapter || ad equestrem ordinem iudicia refero = to restore the judiciary power to the knights || ea ibo opsonatum, eadem referam opsonium || o navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus || causam abscessus … ad Seiani artes rettuli || Caesari pro eius meritis gratiam refero || Buri sermone cultuque Suebos referunt || tacitā recentia mente visa refert || sacra refer Cereri laetis operatus in herbis || aura refert ablata citis talaria plantis || austerque adversus maximo flatu me ad Regium rettulit || e mediis hostibus regem vivacissimo cursu retulit || Celtiberorum animos Romanis adplicando … gratiam retulit || ait observaturum quem ad modum rationes ad aerarium referas || ab eo mille et ducenta talenta praedae in publicum rettulit = he obtained a loot of one thousand two hundred talents and he paid it to the treasury || alicuius adversa pravitati ipsius prospera ad fortunam refero || amisit filiam quae non minus mores eius quam os vultumque referebat || victoriam comparo or consequor, or adipiscor, or fero, or refero, or reporto || fac in puero referre, ex qua adfectione caeli primum spiritum duxerit || Celso gaudere et bene rem gerere Albinovano Musa rogata refer || de aliqua re rem ad senatum refero