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English
Etymology
From Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“I lead”). Compare cognate transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.
Pronunciation
Verb
traduce (third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)
- (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- Synonyms: defame, libel, slander; see also Thesaurus:defame
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: (Second Quarto), London: I R for N L , published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable—but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable.—We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other—but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.
1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography ”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. , Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 203:I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.
1881, The Gospel in All Lands, page 176:“The chief men of the Jews became his enemies and traduced him to the principal persons in the town, hoping to make him ashamed or afraid.”
1935, W. & E. Muir, transl., The Trial, translation of Der Prozess by Franz Kafka:Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 47:Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.
- (archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
- Synonyms: hand down, bequeath, leave
1650, Thomas Browne, chapter X, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son […] .
- (archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
1865 Mar, “The Last of the Tercentenary”, in Temple Bar, volume XIII:From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with transduce.
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Translations
to malign by making malicious and false or defamatory statements
- Bulgarian: клеветя (bg) (klevetja), злословя (bg) (zloslovja)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 誹謗/诽谤 (zh) (fěibàng), 詆毀/诋毁 (dǐhuǐ)
- Finnish: panetella (fi)
- French: calomnier (fr), diffamer (fr)
- German: verleumden (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: βλασφημέω (blasphēméō)
- Maori: whakakinokino, whakahahani, whakarōriki, whakahariharitae, kehi, whakakino
- Romanian: defăima (ro)
- Russian: клевета́ть (ru) (klevetátʹ), злословить (ru) (zloslovitʹ), наговаривать (ru) (nagovarivatʹ), оговаривать (ru) (ogovarivatʹ)
- Spanish: calumniar (es), difamar (es)
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin traducere, from Proto-Italic *tranzdoukō. Cognates include Italian tradurre and French traduire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /traˈdut͡ʃe/
- Hyphenation: tra‧du‧ce
Verb
traduce
- (transitive) to translate
Conjugation
References
Galician
Verb
traduce
- inflection of traducir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /traˈdu.t͡ʃe/
- Rhymes: -utʃe
- Hyphenation: tra‧dù‧ce
Verb
traduce
- third-person singular present indicative of tradurre
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
trādūce
- second-person singular present active imperative of trādūcō
Noun
trāduce
- ablative singular of trādux
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trādūcō, French traduire.
Pronunciation
Verb
a traduce (third-person singular present traduce, past participle tradus) 3rd conj.
- to translate
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /tɾaˈduθe/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /tɾaˈduse/
- (Spain) Rhymes: -uθe
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -use
- Syllabification: tra‧du‧ce
Verb
traduce
- inflection of traducir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative