seduco

seduco

1. first-person singular present indicative of sedurre

• escudo

From sē- (“apart, astray”) +‎ dūcō (“lead”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈduː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈd̪uː.ko]

sēdūcō (present infinitive sēdūcere, perfect active sēdūxī, supine sēductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. 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.

2. to seduce

   Synonyms: indūcō, dēdūcō, sollicitō, persuādeō, alliciō, pelliciō, capiō

   Antonyms: dissuādeō, tardō, obiūrgō

• “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.