CONFER Copy link • CONFERINTR., To discourse with, rem conferre inter se (to confer with anybody about anything): colloqui aliquid cum aliquo, mostly colloqui de re (Vid: commentators on Nep., Them. 9, 4): conferre aliquid: consilia conferre de re: communicare cum aliquo de re (to communicate anything): coram conferre aliquid: agere de aliqua re or with ut (to speak about anything), with anybody, cum aliquo: loqui cum aliquo (to talk with anybody): colloqui cum aliquo (to talk with anybody, especially to settle anything): habere sermones de aliqua re (to discourse about anything): consiliari; in consilium inire (to take counsel together: the latter of judges): deliberare or habere deliberationem (to enter into a deliberation): consulere or consultare (to ask anybody’s advice) deliberare or consultare cum aliquo; aliquem adhibere in consilium or ad deliberationes: to confer with one another, consilia inter se communicare. TRANS., to contribute, conferre ad aliquid (to co-operate, i. e., to contribute one’s share): vim habere, valere ad aliquid (to exercise an influence upon anything). To compare, comparare or conferre inter se. To bestow upon, dare, tribuere (to give, to allot): donare alicui aliquid or aliquem aliqua re (to present with; all of persons only): afferre (of things only, as Cic., N.D., 2, 60, 151: quadrupedum celeritas et vis nobis ipsis affert celeritatem et vim): to confer a benefit upon anybody, beneficium in aliquem conferre: to confer an office upon anybody, munus alicui deferre, mandare; assignare: ☞ deferre signifies “to confer on anybody else what another has hitherto managed or possessed.” e.g., ad aliquem summam imperii, to confer upon anybody the chief command: regnum ac diadema uni, Hor., Carm: 2, 2, 22): to confer advantage or pleasure, utilitatem or voluptatem afferre: to confer a title on anybody, titulum imponere alicui: to confer a benefit, obligation, favor, etc. Vid: those substantives.