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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of abdūcō (“take away; withdraw; seduce”).
Participle
abductus (feminine abducta, neuter abductum); first/second-declension participle
- taken or led away, detached, removed, having been taken away or removed
- withdrawn, having been withdrawn
- robbed, ravished, having been robbed
- seduced, charmed, perverted, having been seduced
- reduced, degraded, having been reduced
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “abductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.