circumferre

Updated: May 24, 2025

Thus from circumferre we have circonférence, also périphérie, from conferre, conférence and also confortable, from deferre déférence, from differre différence, from praeferre préférence, from proferre proférer, from referre référence, each word again with numerous offshoots. We are not at the end yet, and still less when we keep in view also the parallel formations tuli and latum, or portare.

F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller - The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour