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.
- καὶ μετενέγκωμεν τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ. ὅτι οὐκ ἐζήτησαν αὐτὴν ἀφ̓ ἡμερῶν Σαούλ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 13:3)
- καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ τοπάρχαισ ἐν κοίλῃ Συρίᾳ καὶ Φοινίκῃ καὶ τοῖσ ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ ἔγραψεν ἐπιστολὰσ μεταφέρειν ξύλα κέδρινα ἀπὸ τοῦ Λιβάνου εἰσ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ὅπωσ οἰκοδομήσωσι μετ̓ αὐτοῦ τὴν πόλιν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 4:48)
- μετοίσω γὰρ αὐτὰ παρεισελθών, ὁ δὲ αὖθισ περιτρώξεται ἀποτείνων τὰ καττύματα. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 28:12)
- κατ’ Ἐμπεδοκλέα τοιαύτην γὰρ ἡ φιλία βούλεται ποιεῖν ἑνότητα καὶ σύμπηξιν, ἡ δὲ πολυφιλία διίστησι καὶ ἀποσπᾷ καὶ ἀποστρέφει, τῷ μετακαλεῖν καὶ μεταφέρειν ἄλλοτε πρὸσ ἄλλον οὐκ ἐῶσα κρᾶσιν οὐδὲ κόλλησιν εὐνοίασ ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ περιχυθείσῃ καὶ παγείσῃ γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 5 5:1)
- ἐνενόεισ γοῦν τι μεταξὺ προϊὼν καὶ τὰ χείλη διεσάλευεσ ἠρέμα ὑποτονθορύζων καὶ τὴν χεῖρα ὧδε κἀκεῖσε μετέφερεσ ὥσπερ τινὰ ῥῆσιν ἐπὶ ἑαυτοῦ διατιθέμενοσ, ἐρώτημα δή τι τῶν ἀγκύλων συντιθεὶσ ἢ σκέμμα σοφιστικὸν ἀναφροντίζων, ὡσ μηδὲ ὁδῷ βαδίζων σχολὴν ἄγοισ, ἀλλ̓ ἐνεργὸσ εἰήσ ἀεὶ σπουδαῖόν τι πράττων καὶ ὃ πρὸ ὁδοῦ σοι γένοιτ̓ ἂν ἐσ τὰ μαθήματα. (Lucian, 2:2)
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)
