abductus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of abdūcō (“take away; withdraw; seduce”), from ab (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“lead”).

Participle

abductus m (feminine abducta, neuter abductum); first/second declension

1. taken or led away, detached, removed, having been taken away or removed
2. withdrawn, having been withdrawn
3. robbed, ravished, having been robbed
4. seduced, charmed, perverted, having been seduced
5. reduced, degraded, having been reduced

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	abductus	abducta	abductum		abductī	abductae	abducta
genitive	abductī	abductae	abductī		abductōrum	abductārum	abductōrum
dative	abductō		abductō		abductīs
accusative	abductum	abductam	abductum		abductōs	abductās	abducta
ablative	abductō	abductā	abductō		abductīs
vocative	abducte	abducta	abductum		abductī	abductae	abducta

Descendants

• English: abduct

References

• abductus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abductus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)