duco
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.
Noun[edit]
duco (uncountable)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 35:
- A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 35:
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwkti, from the root *dewk-. Cognate with English tow.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
dūcō (present infinitive dūcere, perfect active dūxī, supine ductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- I lead, guide, conduct, lead away
- (by extension) I take
- I draw, pull
- I think, consider, regard
- I marry, I take (as my wife)
- I prolong, I protract
- Synonym: prōdūco
- (military, transitive) I march, command, lead (e.g., an army)
- (passive with active meaning) I march (said of soldiers, lit. "be led")
- I forge (rare)
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References[edit]
- “duco”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- duco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
- a road leads somewhere: via fert, ducit aliquo
- to spend time: tempus ducere
- to lead some one by the hand: manu ducere aliquem
- to trace one's descent from some one: originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere
- to breathe, live: animam, spiritum ducere
- to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere
- to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
- to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari
- to consider a thing creditable to a man: aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dare
- to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre
- to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
- to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re
- to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
- to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem
- to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
- to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere
- to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere
- to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere
- to lead some one in triumph: per triumphum (in triumpho) aliquem ducere
- (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition: gloria duci
- (ambiguous) a thing is taken from life: aliquid e vita ductum est
- (ambiguous) to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare
- (ambiguous) to cherish a hope: spe duci, niti, teneri
- (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci
- to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
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