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• make:

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I. To construct, fashion, farm:

1. făcio, fēci, factum, 3: to m. a bridge, pontem f., Caes.: to m. a vase, vasculum f., Quint. 7, 10, 9: to m. a fire of green sticks, ignem lignis viridibus f., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, 45. Frequent. factito, 1 (to be wont to make): Hor. (f. versus). Also comps. (1). effĭcio, 3 (indicating the result rather than the process: hence sometimes used to denote speediness of making): cf. Cic. Rep. 1, 17, where efficere sphaeram is used of the celebrated sphere of Archimedes as a triumph achieved; with ib. 14, where, in describing the actual model, sphaeram factam (not effectam) is used: having hastily made bridges, celeriter effectis pontibus, Caes. B. G. 6, 6: they made military engines by cutting off the women's hair, praesectis crinibus mulierum tormenta effecerunt, id. B. C. 3, 9. (2). confĭcio, 3 (to make completely): he had made his ring, his mantle, his shoes with his own hand, annulum, pallium, soccos se sua manu confecisse, Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 127.
2. fingo, nxi, ctum, 3 (by moulding, shaping, etc.): to m. wax figures, e cera f., Cic. Verr. 4, 13, 30: to m. verses, carmina f., Hor.: so also effingo: v. to form (I., 4); fashion (III.); mould.

II. To constitute, form: effĭcio, 3: v. to form (II.).
III. To yield a certain result (in arithmetic):

1. effĭcio, 3: those (funds) hardly m. up enough for the interest, ea vix in fenus quod satis sit ef., Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3: cf. Col. 5, 2 (throughout). Also simple verb, făcio: Col. 5, 1, med.
2. fĭeri, irr.: cf. Col. 5, 2, has duas summas in se multiplicato, quinquagies centena fiunt quinque millia, i. e. multiply these together, and they make, etc.
3. expr. by esse ad ... when addition is denoted; reliquum, -a esse, when subtraction is denoted: Cic. Verr. 3, 49, 116: Col. l. c.

IV. To gain: Phr.: to m. money, pecuniam [maximam] facere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, 17; so, rem facere, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 12: Hor. See also to get, gain.
V. To designate to an office: creo, 1; făcio, praefĭcio, 3: v. to appoint.
VI. To bring to a certain state:

1. făcio, 3: you have made the senate, which was already quite firm, firmer still, senatum, bene firmum, firmiorem fecistis, Cic. Ph. 6, 7, 18: made gods from being men, dii facti ex hominibus, id. Rep. 2, 10: Caes.: Sall.
2. reddo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3: to m. human life safer and richer, tutiorem et opulentiorem vitam hominum r., Cic. Rep. 1, 2: v. to render.

VII. To represent dramatically or otherwise:

1. făcio, 3: Xenophon m.s Socrates argue that ..., X. facit Socratem disputantem ..., Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 31: he m.s the world to be built by God, mundum a Deo aedificari f., ib. 1, 8, 19.
2. indūco, 3: v. to introduce (II.).

VIII. To value: Phr.: to m. of much or little account, magni, parvi, etc., facere, aestimare: v. to value.
IX. To force: cōgo, etc.: v. to compel.
X. Miscell. Phr.: to m. flesh, corpus facere, Cels. 7, 3, fin.: Phaedr.: to m. war, bellum facere, Caes. B. G. 3, extr.: Cic.: to m. war upon any one, bellum inferre alicui, contra aliquem, Cic. (v. war): to m. peace between citizens, pacem conciliare inter cives, Cic. Fam. 10, 27 (v. peace): to m. an island, a port (nautical phr.), insulam, portum capere, Caes. B. G. 4, 26 and 36: to m. a bed, lectum (lectulum) vestimentis sternere, cf. Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 30: to m. a to-do, moliri, ib. 2, 2, 11: to m. a matter all right and safe, rem in tuto collocare, ib. 4, 3, 11: to m. room for any one in the street, alicui (de) via decedere, Pl. Am. 3, 4, 1: Suet.: pass. decedi (impers.), to have room made for one in the street, Cic. Sen. 18, 63.

B. Intrans.: in this sense usu. foll. by prep.: v. to make against, etc.

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• make (subs.): făcies, fĭgūra: v. figure, shape.

R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)

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v. To produce, facere: conficere: efficere (to accomplish, effect): creare (to create): to make money by, pecuniam conficere de re: to make great profits by anything, rem habere quaestuosissimam (Cic.): to make a fortune, in multas opes crescere (Plin.): collocupletare se (Terentianus): made for anything (i. e., constituted, adapted by nature), ad aliquid factus; alicui rei or ad aliquid natus factusque (opposed to ad aliquid doctus or institutus).
In arithmetic, efficere (to make up): esse, fieri (to amount; Vid: Col., 5, 2, 6, has duas summas in se multiplicato, quinquagies centeni fiunt quinque millia. Horum pars dimidia duo millia quingeni, quae pars jugeri unciam et scripulum efficit: Cic., Verr., 3, 49, 116, Professio est agri Leontini ad jugerum XXX. millia. Haec sunt ad tritici medimnūm XC., id est tritici modium DXL. millia) (Cic., Verr., 3, 49, 116, Professio est agri Leontini ad jugerum XXX. Haec sunt ad tritici medimnūm XC., id est tritici modium DXL.):
To cause a person or thing to become anything. (a) To nominate, facere, instituere (to institute): constituere (to fix, appoint): creare (to choose, elect; aliquem, followed by an accusative of that which anyone is made, etc.); e.g., make a person one’s heir, heredem aliquem facere, instituere. (b) To put anyone in a certain state (with adjectives expressing the nature of the state), facere, efficere, reddere aliquem, followed by an accusative of the predicate (☞ with this difference, that facere and efficere are, to produce a certain state or condition; reddere is, to place in a certain state or condition); e.g., to make one unserviceable, aliquem inutilem facere (as, by a wound): to make a person better, aliquem meliorem reddere: to make tame or gentle, homines ex feris mites reddere or homines feros mites reddere (☞ Herzog, Sall., Cat., 14, 3): to make anything of a person, aliquem pulchre erudire (to instruct well): aliquem producere ad dignitatem (to promote): to make much of anyone, aliquem magni facere (to value highly): multum alicui tribuere (to assign much to anyone): aliquem colere (to respect, reverence): to make little or nothing of one, aliquem parvi facere (to value little): aliquem contemnere (to despise): to make much of anything, aliquid magni facere, existimare (to value highly): aliquid in honore habere (to hold in honor): not make much account of anything, aliquid haud in magno pretio ponere.
To cause, efficere; facere: I did not make him do it, non facit impulsu meo (Terentianus).
To represent, by description or otherwise facere (by art, or by words): fingere (by art, of statuaries, etc.: both take the accompanying verb, if active, in the participle present; if passive, in the infinitive present; e.g.), Xenophon makes Socrates say, Xenophon facit Socratem disputantem: he makes the world to be constructed by the Deity, a Deo construi atque aedificari mundum facit.
MAKE AWAY [Vid: DESTROY].
MAKE HASTE [Vid: HASTEN].
MAKE AN OFFER [Vid: OFFER].
MAKE OVER, transferre; transmitter.
MAKE READY [Vid: PREPARE].
MAKE UP = To constitute, efficere, also, esse (in contents, value; to consist of): explere, implere (to amount to; the former also = efficere): how much does it make up? quae summa est? quantum est? to make up four thousand men, quatuor milia militum explere: to make up a great sum, longam summam efficere: the gold which made up an Attic talent, quod summam Attici talenti explebat: to make up a whole (of quarters), multitudinem integri assequi et exaequare (Vid: Auct, ad Her., 4, 20, 22). To compose, reconcile [Vid. COMPOSE, RECONCILE].
MAKE USE, uti aliqua re (mostly with the idea of need and enjoyment, χρῆσθαι): usurpare aliquid (to use a thing as opportunity occurs, of momentary use): adhibere aliquid alicui rei (to apply a thing in a single case to a definite object, with the notion of purpose and intention): to make use of anyone, uti alicujus opera (his assistance) or consilio (his advice), to make use of a saying of Solon’s, ut Sulonis dictum usurpem.

2. Vid :, FORM, FIGURE.

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