traduce

From Latin trādūcō (“lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“I lead”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdjuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdus/, /tɹəˈdjus/

traduce (third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)

1. (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 1, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     , scene 4

     This heavy-headed revel east and west
     Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:

2. (archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, X:

     However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].

3. (archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
   • 1865, "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar, vol. XIII, Mar 1865:

     From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

• (pass on): hand down, bequeath, leave
• (malign or defamatory statements): defame, libel, slander
• (convert languages): translate
• See also Thesaurus:defame

• Decatur, curated, educrat

• IPA^(key): /traˈdutʃe/

traduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of tradurre

• creduta, decurta

trādūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trādūcō

Borrowed from Latin trādūcō, French traduire.

• IPA^(key): /traˈdu.tʃe/

a traduce (third-person singular present traduce, past participle tradus) 3rd conj.

1. to translate

• traducere

• duce

• IPA^(key): [tɾaˈðuθe]

traduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of traducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of traducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of traducir.