Importo, importas, importâre. Cæs. To cary, bring, or conuey in.Frumentum importare in oppidum. Cæs. Importare adiumenta.Cic.To bring aide: to helpe.Important ægritudines anxias atque acerbas. Cicero. They bring, &c.Calamitatem conseruatoribus suis importare.To bring miserie to those that preserued him.Clades discordia ciuilis importar.Liu.Inde contagionem eius importante. Pli. Bringing the infection from thence.Fœcunditatem importat fœminis vinÛ Arcadicum. Pli. Maketh women to haue children.Incommodum importare.Cic.To bring discommoditie.Mala casus importat.Cic.Multum calamitatis importare. Cicero. To bring much calamitie.Odium importare libellis. Hor. To make bookes hated.Periculum importare.Liu.To bring daunger.Pestem.Cic.To bring mischief to.Rabiem viris importat vinum Arcadicum. Pli. Maketh men mad.Solicitudines importare.Cic.To bring into care.Suspicionem aliquam alicui importare.Cicer.To make one suspect.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
importo (inp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [inporto], to bring, carry, or convey into, to bring in from abroad, to import (class.). I.Lit.: qui (D. Laelius) commeatus Bullide atque Amantia importari in oppidum prohibebat, Caes. B. C. 3, 40, 5: vinum ad se omnino importari non sinunt, id. B. G. 4, 2 fin.: ullam rem ad se, id. ib.init.; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 3: aere utuntur importato, id. ib. 5, 12, 5; so, frumentum, id. B. C. 3, 42 fin.: jumenta, id. B. G. 4, 2, 2: instrumentum balinei, Vell. 2, 114, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 3: grandines Septentrio importat et Corus, Plin. 2, 47, 48, 126.—II.Trop., to introduce, bring about, occasion, cause: importantur non merces solum adventiciae, sed etiam mores, Cic. Rep. 2, 4: facile patior, non esse nos transmarinis nec importatis artibus eruditos, sed genuinis domesticisque virtutibus, id. ib, 2, 15: si quid importetur nobis incommodi, propulsemus, id. Off. 2, 5, 18; cf.: plura detrimenta publicis rebus quam adjumenta per homines eloquentissimos importata, id. de Or. 1, 9, 38: calamitatem alicui, id. Sest. 69, 146: pestem aut incolumem famam alicui, id. Deiot. 15, 43: luctum alicui, Phaedr. 1, 28, 6: fecunditatem feminis, rabiem viris (vinum), Plin. 14, 18, 22, 116: odium libellis, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 5: (perturbationes animi) important aegritudines anxias atque acerbas, Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34; so, suspicionem, id. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 6: fraudem aut periculum, Liv. 39, 14, 4: ignominiam (crimen), Dig. 50, 2, 5.