reductio

Latin

Etymology

From redūcō (“bring back, restore”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈduk.ti.oː/, [rɛˈd̪ʊkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈduk.t͡si.o/, [reˈd̪ukt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

reductiō f (genitive reductiōnis); third declension

1. A bringing back, a leading back.
2. A restoring, restoration.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	reductiō	reductiōnēs
Genitive	reductiōnis	reductiōnum
Dative	reductiōnī	reductiōnibus
Accusative	reductiōnem	reductiōnēs
Ablative	reductiōne	reductiōnibus
Vocative	reductiō	reductiōnēs

Related terms

• redūcō
• redūctō
• reductor
• reductus

Descendants

• Catalan: reducció
• English: reduction
• French: réduction
• Italian: riduzione

• Portuguese: redução
• Romanian: reducție
• Russian: редукция (redukcija)
• Spanish: reducción

References

• “reductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reductio 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)
• reductio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.