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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēdūcō.
Participle
dēductus (feminine dēducta, neuter dēductum, comparative dēductior, adverb dēductim); first/second-declension participle
- having been led or escorted away
- (needed: other examples drawn from the meanings of deduco)
- having been well-wrought; having been made slender, subtle, fine, attenuated
- (literal, as in spinning wool, or figurative) having been spun or drawn out
8 CE – 12 CE,
Ovid,
Sorrows 1.39:
- carmina prōveniunt animō dēducta serēnō
- Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease
Well-spun verses come forth from a serene mind
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “deductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deductus 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)
- deductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the matter has gone so far that...; the state of affairs is such that..: res eo or in eum locum deducta est, ut...