subduco

Latin

FWOTD – 7 September 2015

Etymology

From sub- +‎ dūcō (lead; draw).

Pronunciation

Verb

subdūcō (present infinitive subdūcere, perfect active subdūxī, supine subductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

  1. to draw from under or below; draw, lift or pull up, raise
  2. (nautical) to draw or haul up onto land, beach
  3. to draw, take or lead away, carry off, withdraw, remove, subtract, reduce
    Synonym: subtrahō
  4. to rescue
  5. (military) to draw off forces from one position to another; withdraw, transfer
    Synonyms: dēcēdō, discēdō, cēdō, abscēdō, deficiō, concēdō, excēdō, subtrahō, inclīnō, recēdō, regredior, facessō, āmoveō, recipiō, referō, vertō
    Antonyms: prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, prōficiō, aggredior, ēvehō, incēdō, accēdō, adeō
  6. to take away secretly, steal, hide, purloin
  7. (with reflexive) to take oneself away secretly, steal away, sneak off, withdraw
  8. (figuratively) to draw up, reckon, compute, calculate, balance; deliberate

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: subduir
  • Old French: souduire
    • Middle English: subduen

References

  • subduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • subduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • subduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere
    • to haul up a boat: navem subducere (in aridum)