deduco

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deduco

1. first-person singular present indicative of dedurre

From dē- + dūcō ("lead, pull").

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

dēdūcō (present infinitive dēdūcere , perfect active dēdūxī , supine dēductum ); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. to lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protection)
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE , Plautus, Amphitruo 215:

     respondent bello se et suos tutari posse proinde uti / propere de suis finibus exercitus deducerent

     They answered that they were able in warfare to protect themselves and theirs, and that at once they must lead the army with all haste out of their territories.

2. to lead, fetch, bring or draw down; weigh down, outweigh
3. to deduct, subtract, diminish, reduce
   • 44 BCE , Cicero, De officiis 1.18.59:

     [...] ut boni ratiocinatores officiorum esse possimus et addendo deducendoque videre quae reliqui summa fiat ex quo quantum cuique debeatur intellegas

     [...] , in order to become good calculators of duty, able by adding and subtracting to strike a balance correctly and find out just how much is due to each individual.

4. to stretch out, extend, draw out
   • c. 15 BCE , Vitruvius, De architectura 9.7.2:

     et deducto circino ab eo centro ad lineam planitiae ubi erit littera B circinatio circuli describatur quae dicitur meridiana

     and extending the compasses from that centre to the extremity B of the said line, let a circle be described; this is called the meridian.

5. to lead forth or conduct a colony to a certain place; found (a colony)
   • 44 BCE – 43 BCE , Cicero, Philippicae 13.31:

     veteranorum colonias deductas lege senatus consulto sustulistis

     You, by a resolution of the senate, have removed the colonies of the veterans which had been settled by law.

6. (law ) to bring to trial; bring before a tribunal as a witness
   • 59 BCE , Cicero, Pro Flacco 6.9:

     sed sunt in illo numero multi boni docti pudentes qui ad hoc iudicium deducti non sunt

     but there are in that number many virtuous, learned, modest men, who have not been brought here to this trial.

7. (law ) to withhold
   • c. 160 CE , Gaius, Institutiones 2.33:

     non enim ipse ususfructus mancipatur sed cum in mancipanda proprietate deducatur

     For the usufruct itself is not mancipated, but in mancipating the property the usufruct is withheld.

8. (military ) to withdraw, remove, draw off, lead off (troops from one place to another); conduct or bring to a place
   • c. 48 BCE , Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 3.34:

     Caesar Antonii exercitu coniuncto deducta Orico legione, quam tuendae orae maritimae causa posuerat

     Caesar, having withdrawn his garrisons from the sea-coast, as we have related above, left three cohorts at Oricum to defend the town

9. (nautical ) to draw out a ship (from a port), launch
   • c. 48 BCE , Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 2.3.2:

     [...] ex navalibus eorum navem deducit

     [...] drew out one of their ships out of dock.

10. (rare , nautical ) to draw a ship into port
    • c. 48 BCE , Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 1.36.2:

      onerarias naves, quas ubique possunt deprehendunt atque in portum deducunt

      They seize all the merchantmen they could meet with, and draw them into the harbor.

11. (in weaving) to spin or draw out (the thread); weave
    • 8 CE , Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.36:

      e quibus una levi deducens pollice filum

      Then one of them speaks, spinning the thread lightly with her thumb

12. (figuratively ) to mislead, seduce, entice, win over, induce
    • c. 52 BCE , Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 7.37:

      celeriter adulescentibus et oratione magistratus et praemio deductis

      The young men being easily won over by the speech of the magistrate and the bribe

13. (figuratively , of a literary composition) to spin out, elaborate, prepare, describe, compose
    • 8 CE , Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.3–4:

      [...] primaque ab origine mundi / ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen /

      [...] and spin out a continuous thread of words, from the world's first origins to my own time

14. (figuratively , of the origin of words) to derive, discover, deduce
    • 77 CE – 79 CE , Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 25.4.44:

      quartum genus panaces ab eodem Chirone repertum centaurion cognominatur sed et Pharnaceon in controversia inventionis a Pharnace rege deductum

      A fourth kind of panaceas, discovered also by Chiron, is denominated as "centaurion," but also "pharnacion," derived from King Pharnaces; it being a matter in dispute of faculty of invention.

15. (figuratively , of physical evils) to cure, cleanse, remove
    • 20 BCE – 14 BCE , Horatius, Epistulae 1.2.48:

      / non domus et fundus non aeris acervus et auri / aegroto domini deduxit corpore febris / non animo curas

      Not house or grounds, not heaps of brass or gold will cure the frame of fever's heat and cold or cleanse the heart of care.

16. (figuratively , borrowed from the idea of spinning) to make finer, thinner or weaker, attenuate

• (accompany, escort): comitor , cōnsequor , prōsequor , sequor , stīpō
• (conduct): ago , duco , produco , traduco , veho , perfero
• (mislead, induce): sollicitō , indūcō , sēdūcō , suādeō , persuādeō , perdūcō , conciliō , alliciō , pelliciō , capiō
• (deduce): īnferō

• (antonym(s) of "induce"): dissuādeō , tardō , obiūrgō

• "deduco", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "deduco", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "deduco", in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1] , London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere
    
  • to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
    
  • to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem
    
  • to escort a person from his house: deducere aliquem de domo
    
  • to subtract something from the capital: de capite deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) aliquid
    
  • to found a colony somewhere: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
    
  • to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere
    
  • to launch a boat: navem deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
    

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