abductio

Latin

Etymology

From abdūcō (“take away; withdraw; seduce”), from ab (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“lead”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈduk.ti.oː/, [äbˈd̪ʊkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈduk.t͡si.o/, [äbˈd̪ukt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

abductiō f (genitive abductiōnis); third declension

1. robbing, ravishing, plundering
2. (by extension, of a woman) abduction
3. (Vulgar Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) retirement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abductiō	abductiōnēs
Genitive	abductiōnis	abductiōnum
Dative	abductiōnī	abductiōnibus
Accusative	abductiōnem	abductiōnēs
Ablative	abductiōne	abductiōnibus
Vocative	abductiō	abductiōnēs

Synonyms

• (retirement): dēcessiō, dēcessus
• (robbing): spoliātiō

Related terms

• abdūcēns
• abducō
• abductor
• abductus

Descendants

• Catalan: abducció
• English: abduction
• French: abduction
• Italian: abduzione

• Portuguese: abdução
• Russian: абдукция (abdukcija)
• Spanish: abducción

References

• “abductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abductio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• abductio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.