AFFORD Copy link • AFFORDYield, of the earth, trees, etc.: ferre, efferre, proferre: fundere: effundere (of nature, the earth, a field: fundere and effundere = yield abundantly). Afford fruit or produce, ferre fruges, or ferre only; fructum afferre; efferre (especially of a field). The tree affords its fruit, arbor fert. Produce, cause, etc., afferre (to bring): facere, efficere (to cause): esse (with dative): praestare. To afford profit or pleasure, utilitatem or voluptatem afferre; usui or voluptati esse: to afford anybody continual pleasure, voluptatem perpetuam praestare alicui: comfort, consolation, solatium dare, praebere, afferre, solatio or solatium esse. To afford no consolation (of things), nihil habere consolationis: a hope, aliquem in spem vocare or adducere (adducere, also, of things): of anything, alicujus rei spem alicui afferre, ostendere or ostentare; spem alicujus rei alicui efferre (of things); spem alicui rei praebere: an expectation, exspectationem movere, commovere, facere, concitare: assistance, auxilium or opem ferre alicui (against anything, contra aliquid): aliquem opera adjuvare in aliqua re, alicui opitulari in aliqua re facienda, alicui operamsuam commodare ad aliquid, alicui operam praebere in aliqua re (to serve or assist in the execution of anything: the last especially of assistance with one’s own hands). To be able to buy with prudence, *tanti, tam care, tanta pecunia emere posse: tantam impensam facere posse (of a large outlay): suum facere posse (to be able to make anything one’s own). I can not afford anything, *multo pluris est aliquid, quam ut ego emere, or meum facere, possim. To be able to sell without loss or with sufficient profit. I can not afford it for less, non possum minoris vendere.