reduco
Italian
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈduː.koː/, [rɛˈduː.koː]
Verb
redūcō (present infinitive redūcere, perfect active redūxī, supine reductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- I lead, draw, bring or conduct back; bring or accompany home
- (military, of troops) I withdraw, cause to retreat, draw off, remove
- (figuratively) I bring back, restore, recall, revive, replace; reform
- (figuratively) I bring, produce or get out a quantity of
- (figuratively) I bring, make or reduce to a certain condition or quality
- (Medieval Latin) I quell, I subdue, I subjugate [10th C.]
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (I subjugate): subiugō (Classical)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- reduco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- reduco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere
- to recall a thing to a person's mind: in memoriam alicuius redigere, reducere aliquid (not revocare)
- to bring a person back to the right way: in viam reducere aliquem
- to reduce a people to their former obedience: aliquem ad officium (cf. sect. X. 7, note officium...) reducere (Nep. Dat. 2. 3)
- to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere
- Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), 898/1, “reducere”
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