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Italian
Verb
seduco
- first-person singular present indicative of sedurre
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Latin
Etymology
From sē- (“apart, astray”) + dūcō (“lead”).
Pronunciation
Verb
sēdūcō (present infinitive sēdūcere, perfect active sēdūxī, supine sēductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to lead astray
397 CE – 401 CE,
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis,
Confessions 4.1.1:
- per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus
- During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I was led astray and led others astray.
- to seduce
- Synonyms: indūcō, dēdūcō, sollicitō, persuādeō, alliciō, pelliciō, capiō
- Antonyms: dissuādeō, tardō, obiūrgō
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References
- “seduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “seduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- seduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.