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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proˈdu.ko/
- Rhymes: -uko
- Hyphenation: pro‧dù‧co
Verb
produco
- first-person singular present indicative of produrre
Latin
Etymology
From prō- + dūcō (“lead; draw”).
Pronunciation
Verb
prōdūcō (present infinitive prōdūcere, perfect active prōdūxī, supine prōductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to lead or bring forth, forward or out
- Synonyms: profero, praefero, affero, expōnō, summittō, prōpōnō, edo
- to conduct to; bring before, present
- Synonyms: duco, deduco, ago, traduco, veho, perfero
- to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extend
- to bring to light, disclose, expose
- to advance, draw out
- to bring forth, bear, beget; bring up, rear, educate
- to expose for sale
- to place one thing before another
2 CE, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria, archived from the original on 2018-10-23, book 2, lines 211-2:Nec dubitā teretī scamnum prōdūcere lectō,
Et tenerō soleam dēme vel adde pedī.- And do not hesitate to put a bench in front of the smooth bed
and take a sandal off of, or put it on, her tender foot.
- (grammar, of pronunciation) to lengthen, prolong
- (figuratively) to bring into use, make, invent devise, produce
- (figuratively) to raise, promote, advance
- (figuratively) to lead or induce someone to do something, entice
- (figuratively) to draw or drag out, lengthen out, prolong, protract
- (figuratively, of time) to pass, spend
- (figuratively) to plant, cultivate
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References
- “produco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “produco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- produco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to introduce a character on the stage: in scaenam producere aliquem
- to lengthen the pronunciation of a syllable or letter: syllabam, litteram producere (opp. corripere) (Quintil. 9. 4. 89)
- to prolong a conversation far into the night: sermonem producere in multam noctem (Rep. 6. 10. 10)
- to produce as a witness: aliquem testem producere
- to lead the army to the fight: exercitum educere or producere in aciem