ferre

• “Suffering is derived from the Latin word ferre, which means "to bear" or "to carry.”

  Phillip Moffitt: How Suffering Got A Bad Name

• “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

• “The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light.”

  Think Progress » Red Cross financial aid Scott Brown voted to kill now assisting Massachusetts relief efforts in Haiti.

• “The word aquifer comes from the two Latin words, aqua, or water, and ferre, to bear or carry.”

  Groundwater

• “Christe, qui lumen Patris es superni, qui Patris nobis reseras profunda, nos fac æterne tibi ferre laudes lucis in aula.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Ovid (A.A.) is not ashamed “ad teneros Oscula (not basia or suavia) ferre pedes.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Sola digna tu fuisti ferre saeculi pretium, atque portum praeparare nauta mundo naufrago, quem sacer cruor perunxit, fusus Agni corpore.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “Deum appellare aut pronam facie terram contingente adorare oportet, et hoc amuletum majoribus nostris acceptum ferre debemus,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Paulus Abbas Eremita tanta solitudine, perseverat, ut nec vestem, nec vultum mulieris ferre possit, &c. 2519.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Qui invidiam ferre non potest, ferre contemptum cogitur.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

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