abduco
Italian
Verb
abduco
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *abdoukō. Equivalent to ab- (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw, bring forward”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /abˈduː.koː/, [äbˈd̪uːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈdu.ko/, [äbˈd̪uːko]
Verb
abdūcō (present infinitive abdūcere, perfect active abdūxī, supine abductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- (literally)
- (figurative)
- (in general) lead away, separate, distinguish
- (in particular):
- seduce, charm, attract or entice away, pervert; alienate from fidelity or allegiance
- Synonyms: allicefaciō, corrumpō, pelliciō, sēdūcō
- withdraw, draw off, hinder (from a study, pursuit, duty, etc.)
- Synonym: recēdō
- cause to withdraw, be separated, fall off or drop out; divert
- Synonym: redūcō
- bring down, reduce, degrade, lower
- Synonym: attenuō
- seduce, charm, attract or entice away, pervert; alienate from fidelity or allegiance
Inflection
Derived terms
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Descendants
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- Catalan: abduir
- → English: abduce, abduct
- Italian: abdurre
- Norwegian Bokmål: abdusere
- Portuguese: abduzir
- → Romanian: abduce
- → Spanish: abducir
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References
- “abduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw away some one's attention from a thing: alicuius animum ab aliqua re abducere
- to be led away from the truth: a vero abduci
- to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem
- to let oneself be perverted from one's duty: ab officio abduci, avocari
- to carry off into slavery: aliquem in servitutem abducere, abstrahere
- to draw away some one's attention from a thing: alicuius animum ab aliqua re abducere
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