abduco

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Italian

Verb

abduco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of abdurre

Latin

Etymology

From ab- (from, away from) +‎ dūcō (to lead, conduct, draw, bring forward).

Pronunciation

Verb

abdūcō (present infinitive abdūcere, perfect active abdūxī, supine abductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

  1. (literally)
    1. (in general) to lead away or aside, take away, bring away, carry off; detach, remove
      Synonyms: abdō, āmandō, āmōlior, āmoveō, aspellō, auferō, dēmoveō, dētrahō, exhauriō, eximō, relēgō, legō, removeō, submoveō, sperno, āvertō, eximō, dēmō
      Antonym: addō
    2. (in particular):
      1. to take (with one) to dine
      2. to take aside
      3. to carry off or away forcibly; rob, ravish
    Synonyms: rapiō, dīripiō, ēripiō, adimō, rapiō, corripiō, auferō, āmoveō, āvertō, tollō, praedor, agō
    1. (law) take away, drive away
  2. (figurative)
    1. (in general) to lead away, separate, distinguish
    2. (in particular):
      1. to seduce, charm, attract or entice away, pervert; alienate from fidelity or allegiance
        Synonyms: allicefaciō, corrumpō, pelliciō, sēdūcō
      2. to withdraw, draw off, hinder (from a study, pursuit, duty, etc.)
        Synonym: recēdō
      3. to cause to withdraw, be separated, fall off or drop out; divert
        Synonym: redūcō
      4. to bring down, reduce, degrade, lower
        Synonym: attenuō

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References

  • abduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to draw away some one's attention from a thing: alicuius animum ab aliqua re abducere
    • to be led away from the truth: a vero abduci
    • to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem
    • to let oneself be perverted from one's duty: ab officio abduci, avocari
    • to carry off into slavery: aliquem in servitutem abducere, abstrahere