DIFFER Copy link • DIFFERv. To be different, differre; in anything, aliqua re or in aliqua re; from anybody, ab aliquo: distare (to be separated by an interval; not in this sense in Caes.); aliqua re; in anything, ab aliqua re [poetically, alicui or alicui rei]: discrepare (PROP. of difference in sound, aliqua re or in aliqua re; from anything, a or cum aliqua re; cum aliquo; about anything, de aliqua re; all three with inter se, from each other): diversos esse: to differ very widely, longe esse diversa atque sejuncta (Cic.), plurimum differre. To differ only in words, verbo inter se discrepare, re unum sonare (Cic.). To differ much, or in many respects, multum [☞ not multa] differre, multum inter se distare: to differ little, paullum differre. To disagree, discrepare cum aliquo and cum re (not to be in unison with, opposed to concinere): dissidere, dissentire a and cum aliquo (not to agree in opinion; opposed to consentire): writers differ from each other, discrepat inter scriptores, inter auctores: to differ from any one more in words than in reality, ab aliquo dissentire verbis magis quam sententiis: to agree with one in reality, but to differ in words, re concinere, verbis discrepare cum aliquo.