conductus

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English

Noun

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conductus (plural conducti)

  1. (music) A medieval song, normally with a sacred text, often sung in Latin.

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of condūcō.

Participle

conductus (feminine conducta, neuter conductum); first/second-declension participle

  1. assembled, collected
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative conductus conducta conductum conductī conductae conducta
Genitive conductī conductae conductī conductōrum conductārum conductōrum
Dative conductō conductō conductīs
Accusative conductum conductam conductum conductōs conductās conducta
Ablative conductō conductā conductō conductīs
Vocative conducte conducta conductum conductī conductae conducta

Etymology 2

From condūcō (“lead, bring together”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

conductus m (genitive conductūs); fourth declension

  1. (rare) contraction (of the body)
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative conductus conductūs
Genitive conductūs conductuum
Dative conductuī conductibus
Accusative conductum conductūs
Ablative conductū conductibus
Vocative conductus conductūs
Descendants

References

  • “conductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “conductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • conductus 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)
  • conductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse
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