conduit

• (obsolete) cundite

From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/, /ˈkɒndʒʊɪt/, /ˈkɒndɪt/, (obsolete) /ˈkʌndɪt/^[1]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnd(j)ʊɪt/, /ˈkɑndɪt/

• Audio (US):

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conduit (plural conduits)

1. A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
2. A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway.
3. (figurative) A means by which something is transmitted.

   The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.

   • 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.

4. (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance sheet bank assets.

• duction, noctuid

Inherited from Old French conduit (noun, past participle) from Latin conductus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɥi/

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• Rhymes: -ɥi

conduit m (plural conduits)

1. conduit (connecting pipe/channel)
2. a conductus

conduit (feminine conduite, masculine plural conduits, feminine plural conduites)

1. past participle of conduire

conduit

1. third-person singular present indicative of conduire

• “conduit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

conduit m (feminine singular conduita, masculine plural conduits, feminine plural conduitas)

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conduit m (plural conduits)

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conduit m (feminine conduita, masculine plural conduits, feminine plural conduitas)

1. past participle of conduire

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 187.