subduco
Latin
FWOTD – 7 September 2015
Etymology
From sub- + dūcō (“lead; draw”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊbˈduː.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [subˈd̪uː.ko]
Verb
subdūcō (present infinitive subdūcere, perfect active subdūxī, supine subductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- to draw from under or below; draw, lift or pull up, raise
- (nautical) to draw or haul up onto land, beach
- to draw, take or lead away, carry off, withdraw, remove, subtract, reduce
- Synonym: subtrahō
- to rescue
- (military) to draw off forces from one position to another; withdraw, transfer
- to take away secretly, steal, hide, purloin
- (with reflexive) to take oneself away secretly, steal away, sneak off, withdraw
- (figuratively) to draw up, reckon, compute, calculate, balance; deliberate
Conjugation
Conjugation of subdūcō (third conjugation, irregular short imperative)
Derived terms
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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)
- to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere