Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
far .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- compar. of
fer .
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Suffering is derived from the Latin word ferre, which means "to bear" or "to carry."
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'black,' because it is effected secretly and under cover, and usually by night: or from fraus, or from ferre, meaning 'carrying off'; or from the
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light.
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The word aquifer comes from the two Latin words, aqua, or water, and ferre, to bear or carry.
Groundwater 2010
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Christe, qui lumen Patris es superni, qui Patris nobis reseras profunda, nos fac æterne tibi ferre laudes lucis in aula.
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Christe, qui lumen Patris es superni, qui Patris nobis reseras profunda, nos fac æterne tibi ferre laudes lucis in aula.
Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
Sing, my tongue bls 2009
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Ovid (A.A.) is not ashamed “ad teneros Oscula (not basia or suavia) ferre pedes.”
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Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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