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Italian
Verb
conduco
- first-person singular present indicative of condurre
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *komdoukō. Equivalent to con- + dūcō (“lead”).
Pronunciation
Verb
condūcō (present infinitive condūcere, perfect active condūxī, supine conductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- (transitive) to lead, bring or draw together; assemble, collect
- (transitive) to connect, join, unite; close up; coagulate
- (transitive) to hire, rent, employ, take on lease, undertake; farm; bribe
- (intransitive) to be conducive to, contribute to something by being useful, to be of use or profitable, serve
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References
- “conduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to undertake the contract for a work: opus redimere, conducere
- to give, undertake a contract for building a house: domum aedificandam locare, conducere
- to farm the revenues: vectigalia redimere, conducere
- to undertake a contract for building a portico: redimere, conducere porticum aedificandam (Div. 2. 21. 47)
- to concentrate troops: conducere, contrahere copias