Etymological root

ferre

Middle English

# ferre

**Type:** Etymological root
**Language:** Middle English
**Slug:** ferre

## Words From This Root
- far - At, to, or from a great distance.
- illation - the act of drawing an inference, or the conclusion so drawn
- defer - to postpone; or to yield respectfully to another's wishes
- differentiation - the process of recognizing or making something different
- elatedness - the state of being elated; great joy or high spirits
- elate - to fill with high spirits or exhilarated joy
- fertile - capable of producing abundant growth or offspring; productive
- sufferable - able to be endured or tolerated; bearable
- transference - the act of conveying something from one person, place, or context to another
- differential - relating to or depending on a difference; a difference in amount or rate
- indifferently - without interest or concern; in a mediocre manner
- conferrer - a person who confers, grants, or bestows something
- deferment - the act of postponing something to a later time
- differentialize - to make or mark as different; to differentiate
- fertility - the ability to produce offspring or abundant vegetation
- insufferable - too unpleasant or arrogant to be endured
- oblation - a religious offering or sacrifice presented to a deity
- referral - the act of directing someone to another source or expert
- referrer - a person or thing that refers another
- sufferance - tolerance or tacit permission rather than express consent
- collate - to collect and arrange items in proper order, especially for comparison
- collation - the act of collecting and comparing texts; also a light meal
- deference - respectful submission to another's judgment or wishes
- differentness - the quality or state of being different; dissimilarity
- elative - of a grammatical case expressing motion out of something
- indifference - lack of interest, concern, or sympathy
- interrelate - to connect or be connected with one another mutually
- interrelation - a mutual or reciprocal relation between things
- irrelate - to make or render unrelated; to disconnect from relation
- irrelated - not related or connected
- irrelation - absence of relation or connection
- oblate - flattened at the poles, as a spheroid; or a layperson dedicated to monastic life
- offertory - the part of a church service when offerings are collected, or the music sung then
- ref - a referee, or to act as one (informal)
- referential - relating to or containing a reference; pointing to something else
- relational - concerning the way two or more things are connected
- relatival - of or relating to a relative pronoun or relative clause
- relativeness - the quality of being relative rather than absolute
- transferal - the act of moving something from one place or person to another
- transferee - a person to whom something, such as property or a right, is transferred
- unsufferable - unbearable; intolerable (archaic form of insufferable)

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