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Etymology

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From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.

Noun

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duco (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
    • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 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.

Verb

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duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)

  1. (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwkti, from the root *dewk- (“to draw, pull”). Cognate with English tow.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    dūcō (present infinitive dūcere, perfect active dūxī, supine ductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

    1. to lead, guide, conduct, lead away
      Synonyms: moderor, ago, deduco, produco, perfero, traduco, impingo
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.527:
        cui dea ‘dūc!’ inquit ‘scīstī, quā cōgere possēs’
        To which the goddess replies: ‘‘Lead on! You have understood how you are able to compel me.’’
        (A humble farmer named Celeus and his young daughter have spoken kindly to an old woman, and have invited her to visit their cottage, unaware that their guest is the goddess Ceres in disguise.)
    2. (by extension) to take
      • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64:
        In vestrās potuistī dūcere sēdēs.
        You could have taken (me) to your home.
    3. to draw, pull
    4. to think, consider, regard, calculate, count, reckon
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.3:
        Ad eās rēs cōnficiendās biennium sibi satis esse dūxērunt; in tertium annum profectiōnem lēge cōnfirmant.
        They reckoned that a two-year period was enough for them to accomplish those things; by law, they confirmed the departure for the third year.
    5. ellipsis of dūcere domum
      1. to lead (a wife in marriage), to marry, to take (as one’s wife)
      2. (Plautine, vulgar) to lead a prostitute (scortum) home to have sex; to have sex with a prostitute
        Near-synonyms: comprimō, coeō, amō, futuō
    6. to prolong, to protract
      Synonym: prōdūco
    7. (military, transitive) to march, command, lead (e.g., an army)
    8. (passive voice with active voice meaning) to march (said of soldiers, lit. "be led")
      Diū mīlitēs dūcēbantur. ― For a long time, the soldiers were marching.
    9. to forge (rare)

    Conjugation

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       Conjugation of dūcō (third conjugation, irregular short imperative)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present dūcō dūcis dūcit dūcimus dūcitis dūcunt
    imperfect dūcēbam dūcēbās dūcēbat dūcēbāmus dūcēbātis dūcēbant
    future dūcam dūcēs dūcet dūcēmus dūcētis dūcent
    perfect dūxī dūxistī dūxit dūximus dūxistis dūxērunt,
    dūxēre
    pluperfect dūxeram dūxerās dūxerat dūxerāmus dūxerātis dūxerant
    future perfect dūxerō dūxeris dūxerit dūxerimus dūxeritis dūxerint
    passive present dūcor dūceris,
    dūcere     		dūcitur dūcimur dūciminī dūcuntur
    imperfect dūcēbar dūcēbāris,
    dūcēbāre     		dūcēbātur dūcēbāmur dūcēbāminī dūcēbantur
    future dūcar dūcēris,
    dūcēre     		dūcētur dūcēmur dūcēminī dūcentur
    perfect ductus + present active indicative of sum
    pluperfect ductus + imperfect active indicative of sum
    future perfect ductus + future active indicative of sum
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present dūcam dūcās dūcat dūcāmus dūcātis dūcant
    imperfect dūcerem dūcerēs dūceret dūcerēmus dūcerētis dūcerent
    perfect dūxerim dūxerīs dūxerit dūxerīmus dūxerītis dūxerint
    pluperfect dūxissem dūxissēs dūxisset dūxissēmus dūxissētis dūxissent
    passive present dūcar dūcāris,
    dūcāre     		dūcātur dūcāmur dūcāminī dūcantur
    imperfect dūcerer dūcerēris,
    dūcerēre     		dūcerētur dūcerēmur dūcerēminī dūcerentur
    perfect ductus + present active subjunctive of sum
    pluperfect ductus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present — dūc,
    dūce     		— — dūcite —
    future — dūcitō dūcitō — dūcitōte dūcuntō
    passive present — dūcere — — dūciminī —
    future — dūcitor dūcitor — — dūcuntor
    non-finite forms infinitive participle
    active passive active passive
    present dūcere dūcī dūcēns —
    future ductūrum esse ductum īrī ductūrus dūcendus,
    dūcundus
    perfect dūxisse ductum esse — ductus
    future perfect — ductum fore — —
    perfect potential ductūrum fuisse — — —
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    dūcendī dūcendō dūcendum dūcendō ductum ductū

    In Classical Latin, sequor was an alternative passive of dūcō.

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    Prefixed verbs
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    Descendants

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    References

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    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “dūcō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181

    Further reading

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    • “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, 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
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