duco
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English
Etymology
From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.
Noun
duco (uncountable)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35:
- A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.
Verb
duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwkti, from the root *dewk- (“to draw, pull”). Cognate with English tow.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈduː.koː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.ko/,
Verb
dūcō (present infinitive dūcere, perfect active dūxī, supine ductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to lead, guide, conduct, lead away
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.527:
- cui dea ‘dūc!’ inquit ‘scīstī, quā cōgere possēs’
- To which the goddess replies: ‘‘Lead on! You have understood how you are able to compel me.’’
(A humble farmer named Celeus and his young daughter have spoken kindly to an old woman, and have invited her to visit their cottage, unaware that their guest is the goddess Ceres in disguise.)
- To which the goddess replies: ‘‘Lead on! You have understood how you are able to compel me.’’
- cui dea ‘dūc!’ inquit ‘scīstī, quā cōgere possēs’
- (by extension) to take
- to draw, pull
- to think, consider, regard
- to marry, to take (as one's wife)
- c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 679:
- Propter dīvitiās meās, licuit uxōrem dōtātam genere summō dūcere.
- By reason of my wealth, I could have married a dowered wife of the best family.
- Propter dīvitiās meās, licuit uxōrem dōtātam genere summō dūcere.
- to prolong, to protract
- Synonym: prōdūco
- (military, transitive) to march, command, lead (e.g., an army)
- (passive voice with active voice meaning) to march (said of soldiers, lit. "be led")
- to forge (rare)
Conjugation
Conjugation of dūcō (third conjugation, irregular short imperative)
In Classical Latin, sequor was an alternative passive of dūcō.
Derived terms
Prefixed verbs
Other derivations
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dūcō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181
Further reading
- “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- duco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
- a road leads somewhere: via fert, ducit aliquo
- to spend time: tempus ducere
- to lead some one by the hand: manu ducere aliquem
- to trace one's descent from some one: originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere
- to breathe, live: animam, spiritum ducere
- to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere
- to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
- to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari
- to consider a thing creditable to a man: aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dare
- to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre
- to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
- to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re
- to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
- to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem
- to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
- to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere
- to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere
- to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere
- to lead some one in triumph: per triumphum (in triumpho) aliquem ducere
- (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition: gloria duci
- (ambiguous) a thing is taken from life: aliquid e vita ductum est
- (ambiguous) to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare
- (ambiguous) to cherish a hope: spe duci, niti, teneri
- (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci
- to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum