conductus
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English
Noun
conductus (plural conducti)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈduk.tus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈduk.tus/,
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of condūcō.
Participle
conductus (feminine conducta, neuter conductum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | conductus | conducta | conductum | conductī | conductae | conducta | |
| genitive | conductī | conductae | conductī | conductōrum | conductārum | conductōrum | |
| dative | conductō | conductae | conductō | conductīs | |||
| accusative | conductum | conductam | conductum | conductōs | conductās | conducta | |
| ablative | conductō | conductā | conductō | conductīs | |||
| vocative | conducte | conducta | conductum | conductī | conductae | conducta | |
Noun
conductus m (genitive conductī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) conductus (a genre of song)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | conductus | conductī |
| genitive | conductī | conductōrum |
| dative | conductō | conductīs |
| accusative | conductum | conductōs |
| ablative | conductō | conductīs |
| vocative | conducte | conductī |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From condūcō (“lead, bring together”) + -tus.
Noun
conductus m (genitive conductūs); fourth declension
- (rare) contraction (of the body)
- (Medieval Latin) escort, entourage
- (Medieval Latin) guidance
- (Medieval Latin) conduit, canal, pipe, tube
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | conductus | conductūs |
| genitive | conductūs | conductuum |
| dative | conductuī | conductibus |
| accusative | conductum | conductūs |
| ablative | conductū | conductibus |
| vocative | conductus | conductūs |
Descendants
- Asturian: conducta
- Catalan: conducta, conduit
- Corsican: cundutta, cundotta
- English: conduct, conductus, conduit
- French: conduit, conduite
- Friulian: condot, condote
- Galician: condoito, conduto, conduta
- Italian: condotto, condotta
- Ladin: condut
- Old Occitan: conduch
- Old Galician-Portuguese: condoito
- Portuguese: conduto, conduta
- Romanian: conductă
- Sardinian: connutu, cundhutu, cundutu, conduta, cundhuta
- Sicilian: cunnuttu, cunnutta
- Spanish: conducho, conducto, conducta
- Venetan: condoto, condota
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.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “conductus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse
- (ambiguous) to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse