detraho
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dē- + trahō (“to drag”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdeː.tra.(ɦ)oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdɛː.tra.o]
Verb
[edit]dētrahō (present infinitive dētrahere, perfect active dētrāxī, supine dētractum); third conjugation
- to draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.14:
- […] : mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.
- […] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.
- […] : mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.
- to take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob
- to pull down, drag down, lower
- to withhold, divert
- (transferred) to withdraw, take away, remove; lower in estimation, disparage, detract from
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.14:
- Nē illud quidem vidētis, quam omnem invidiam maiōrēs nostrī dominīs, omnem contumēliam servīs dētrāxerint?
- Do you not even see this, how our ancestors disparaged all resentment from masters and all abuse [of their] slaves?
(A verb in the third person plural, perfect active subjunctive, used in the indirect question.)
- Do you not even see this, how our ancestors disparaged all resentment from masters and all abuse [of their] slaves?
- Nē illud quidem vidētis, quam omnem invidiam maiōrēs nostrī dominīs, omnem contumēliam servīs dētrāxerint?
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of dētrahō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “detraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “detraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “detraho”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
- to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere