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Italian
Verb
abduco
- 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
- (literally)
- (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
- (in particular):
- to take (with one) to dine
- to take aside
- to carry off or away forcibly; rob, ravish
- Synonyms: rapiō, dīripiō, ēripiō, adimō, rapiō, corripiō, auferō, āmoveō, āvertō, tollō, praedor, agō
- (law) take away, drive away
- (figurative)
- (in general) to lead away, separate, distinguish
- (in particular):
- to seduce, charm, attract or entice away, pervert; alienate from fidelity or allegiance
- Synonyms: allicefaciō, corrumpō, pelliciō, sēdūcō
- to withdraw, draw off, hinder (from a study, pursuit, duty, etc.)
- Synonym: recēdō
- to cause to withdraw, be separated, fall off or drop out; divert
- Synonym: redūcō
- 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