μεταφέρω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μεταφέρω
μετοίσω
Structure:
μετα
(Prefix)
+
φέρ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to carry over, transfer
- to change, alter
- (rhetoric) to transfer a word to a new sense, use it in a changed sense, employ a metaphor
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- τί γὰρ αὐτοῦ τισ ἂν μετακινήσειεν ἢ τί κάλλιον ἐξεῦρεν ἢ τί παρ’ ἑτέρων ὡσ ἄμεινον μετήνεγκεν; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 140:2)
- μετήνεγκεν ἐνταῦθα ὡσ ἴδιον τοῦ εἴδουσ τοῦ λόγου. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 11:7)
- ὁ δὲ νυμφίοσ οὐ μεθύων Οὐδὲ θρυπτόμενοσ, ἀλλὰ νήφων, ὥσπερ ἀεί, δεδειπνηκὼσ ἐν τοῖσ φιδιτίοισ, παρεισελθὼν ἔλυε τὴν ζώνην καὶ μετήνεγκεν ἀράμενοσ ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 15 3:3)
- πολέμιον ἄνδρα μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων ζῶντα συναρπάσασ εἰσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τριήρη μετήνεγκεν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 2:1)
- Καῖσαρ ὁ πρῶτοσ ἐπικληθεὶσ Σεβαστόσ, ἔτι μειράκιον ὢν Ἀντώνιον ἀπῄτει δισχιλίασ πεντακοσίασ μυριάδασ τοῦ πρώτου Καίσαροσ ἀναιρεθέντοσ, ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ ἃσ πρὸσ αὑτὸν ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ μετήνεγκεν ἀποδοῦναι βουλόμενοσ Ῥωμαίοισ τὸ καταλειφθὲν ὑπὸ Καίσαροσ, ἑκάστῳ δραχμὰσ ἑβδομήκοντα πέντε· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 11)
Synonyms
-
to carry over
-
to change
- μετατίθημι (to be changed, to alter)
- μεταλλάσσω (to change, alter)
- μετακινέω (to change, alter)
- ἀμείβω (to change, alter)
- παραλλάσσω (to change or alter a little)
- ἀλλοιόω (to make different, change, alter)
- διαμείβω (to alter)
- μετατίθημι (to alter)
- μεταστρέφω (to pervert, change, alter)
- ἑτεροιόω (to make of different kind, to be changed or altered, to alter)
- ἀλλάσσω (to make other than it is, to change, alter)
- μετασχηματίζω (to change the form of)
- μεταμείβω (to change, for)
- ἀμείβω (to change, to pa)
- διαλλάσσω (to change)
- διαφθείρω (having changed)
- μεταβουλεύω (to alter one's plans, change one's mind, to change one's mind and not)
- ἀλλοιόω (, to become different, be changed)
Derived
- ἀναφέρω (to bring or carry up, to carry up the country, to carry up)
- ἀποφέρω (to carry off or away, to be carried from one's course, to carry or bring back)
- διαφέρω (to carry over or across, to carry from one to another, to go through)
- εἰσφέρω (to carry into or to, to bring in, contribute)
- ἐκφέρω (carry out, bring forth, produce)
- ἐμφέρω (to bear or bring in, an account was given)
- ἐξαναφέρω (to bear up out of, to recover from an illness)
- ἐπιφέρω (I bestow, put, lay upon)
- καταφέρω (to bring down, will bring, down)
- παραφέρω (to bring to, side, to hand to)
- περιφέρω (to carry round, carry about, to move round)
- προεισφέρω (to advance money to pay the, for)
- προσαποφέρω (to carry off besides, to be returned besides)
- προσεπιφέρω (to bear or produce besides)
- προσφέρω (to bring to or upon, apply to, to lay)
- προφέρω (to bring before, bring to, present)
- συμφέρω (, to bring together, gather)
- συνδιαφέρω (to bear along with one, to bear to the end along with, help in maintaining)
- συνεκφέρω (to carry out together, to burial, to attend a funeral)
- συνεπιφέρω (to join in applying)
- ὑπερφέρω (to bear or carry over, to rise above, to surpass)
- ὑποφέρω (to carry away under, to bear out of danger, to bear or carry by being under)
- φέρω (I bring, bear, carry)
