Ferō , bear , carry , endure 1 PRINCIPAL PARTS: ferō , ferre ,2 tulī , lātum
1 Ferō has two independent stems: fer- in the present system, and tul- (for tol- ) in the perfect from TOL, root of tollō . The perfect tetulī occurs in Plautus . In the participle the root is weakened to tl- , lātum standing for †tlātum (cf. τλητός ).2 Ferre , ferrem , are for †fer-se , †fer-sēm (cf. es-se , es-sem ), s being assimilated to preceding r ; or ferre , ferrem , may be for †ferese , †feresēm (see § 15 . 4).PRESENT STEM fer- PERFECT STEM tul- SUPINE STEM lāt-
ACTIVE PASSIVE INDICATIVE PRESENT ferō ferimus feror ferimur fers fertis ferris (-re) feriminī fert ferunt fertur feruntur IMPERFECT ferēbam ferēbar FUTURE feram ferar PERFECT tulī lātus sum PLUPERFECT tuleram lātus eram FUTURE PERFECT tulerō lātus erō
Active Passive SUBJUNCTIVE PRESENT feram ferar IMPERFECT ferrem 1ferrer PERFECT tulerim lātus sim PLUPERFECT tulissem lātus essem IMPERATIVE PRESENT fer ferte ferre feriminī FUTURE fertō fertōte fertor fertō feruntō fertor feruntor INFINITIVE PRESENT ferre ferrī PERFECT tulisse lātus esse FUTURE lātūrus esse lātum īrī PARTICIPLES PRESENT ferēns , -entisPERFECT lātus FUTURE lātūrus GERUNDIVE ferendus GERUND SUPINE ferendī , -dō, -dum, -dōlātum , lātū 3
a. The compounds of ferō , conjugated like the simple verb, are the following:—
ad- adferō adferre attulī allātum au- , ab- auferō auferre abstulī ablātum con- cōnferō cōnferre contulī collātum dis- , dī- differō differre distulī dīlātum ex- , ē- efferō efferre extulī ēlātum in- īnferō īnferre intulī illātum ob- offerō offerre obtulī oblātum re- referō referre rettulī relātum sub- sufferō sufferre sustulī 2sublātum 4 4 Sustulī and sublātum also supply the perfect and participle of the verb tollō .Note. —In these compounds the phonetic changes in the preposition are especially to be noted. ab- and au- are two distinct prepositions with the same meaning.
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.