abductio
Latin
Etymology
From abdūcō (“take away; withdraw; seduce”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [abˈdʊk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈd̪uk.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
abductiō f (genitive abductiōnis); third declension
- robbing, ravishing, plundering
- (by extension, of a woman) abduction
- (Vulgar Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) retirement
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | abductiō | abductiōnēs |
genitive | abductiōnis | abductiōnum |
dative | abductiōnī | abductiōnibus |
accusative | abductiōnem | abductiōnēs |
ablative | abductiōne | abductiōnibus |
vocative | abductiō | abductiōnēs |
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References
- “abductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "abductio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abductio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.