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Italian
Verb
reduco
- first-person singular present indicative of redurre
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wredoukō. Equivalent to re- (“back, again”) + dūcō (“lead”).
Pronunciation
Verb
redūcō (present infinitive redūcere, perfect active redūxī, supine reductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to lead, draw, bring or conduct back; bring or accompany home
- (military, of troops) to withdraw, cause to retreat, draw back, remove
- (figuratively) to bring back, restore, recall, revive, rescue, replace; reform
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.375:
- “Āmissam classem, sociōs ā morte redūxī.”
- “ lost fleet, crews, I brought back from death.”
- (figuratively) to bring, produce or get out a quantity of
- (figuratively) to bring, make or reduce to a certain condition or quality
- to recall to the mind, remember, remind
- Synonyms: memorō, referō, moneō, retineō, meminī, admoneō
- Antonyms: oblīvīscor, oblitterō
- (Medieval Latin) to quell, to subdue, to subjugate
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References
- “reduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reduco in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- reduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere
- to recall a thing to a person's mind: in memoriam alicuius redigere, reducere aliquid (not revocare)
- to bring a person back to the right way: in viam reducere aliquem
- to reduce a people to their former obedience: aliquem ad officium (cf. sect. X. 7, note officium...) reducere (Nep. Dat. 2. 3)
- Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), 898/1, “reducere”