abduco
Italian
Verb
abduco
Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“I lead”).
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
- I take away, lead away or aside, carry off; detach, remove
- I withdraw
- I cause to withdraw, be separated, fall off or drop out; divert
- I carry off or away forcibly, rob, ravish
- I seduce, charm, attract or entice away, pervert
- I bring down, reduce, degrade, lower
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (cause to withdraw): redūcō
- (reduce): attenuō
- (remove): abdō, āmandō, āmōlior, āmoveō, aspellō, auferō, dēmoveō, dētrahō, eximō, relēgō, removeō, submoveō
- (seduce, charm): allicefaciō, corrumpō, pelliciō, sēdūcō
- (withdraw): recēdō
Antonyms
- (remove): addō
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Descendants
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