"cf." meaning in English

See cf. in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /kəmˈpɛɚ ˌwɪθ/ [US], /siːˈɛf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-cf..wav [US]
Rhymes: -ɛf Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin cōnfer (“compare”), imperative of cōnferō (“I compare”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|cōnfer|t=compare}} Latin cōnfer (“compare”), {{m|la|cōnferō|t=I compare}} cōnferō (“I compare”) Head templates: {{head|en|verb|imperative verb}} cf. (imperative verb)
  1. Compare, compare to, compare with. Tags: imperative, verb Translations (compare): сравни (sravni) (Bulgarian), 參見 (Chinese Mandarin), 参见 (cānjiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), srov. (Czech), jf. (Danish), cf. or vgl. or verg. (Dutch), kp. (Esperanto), sbr. (Faroese), smbr. (Faroese), vrt. (Finnish), cf. (French), vgl. (German), cf. (German), vergl. (German), πβ. (pv.) (Greek), πρβ. (prv.) (Greek), השו׳ (Hebrew), vö. (Hungarian), sbr. (Icelandic), kp. (Ido), cfr. (Italian), 参照せよ (sanshōseyo) (Japanese), 比較せよ (hikakuseyo) (Japanese), sal. (Latvian), plg. (Lithuanian), jf. (Norwegian), por. (Polish), cf. (Portuguese), cf. (Romanian), ср. (sr.) (Russian), cf. (Spanish), cfr. (Spanish), jmf. (Swedish), jfr (Swedish), jfr. (Swedish), cf. (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-cf.-en-verb-OW2O41nZ Disambiguation of 'compare': 99 1
  2. (nonstandard, proscribed) See, see also. Tags: imperative, nonstandard, proscribed, verb
    Sense id: en-cf.-en-verb-wVJX8fQm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cf Related terms: collate, confer

Alternative forms

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