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inductus1 alien

Forms

inductus (feminine inducta, neuter inductum); first/second-declension adjective[1]

Etymology

The adjective “alien” is from Latin indūcō (“to lead in, bring in”): its past participle, used as an adjective.[1][2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found in the letters of Pliny the Younger, of things brought in from abroad, and of matter foreign to the subject of a speech.[2][3]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. Brought in from outside, foreign, adventitious.[1][2][3]
  2. Foreign to the subject, irrelevant.[2][3]

inductus2 inducement

Forms

inductus m (genitive inductūs); fourth declension[1]

Etymology

The noun “inducement” is from Latin indūcō (“to lead in, induce”) + -tus, a verbal noun of the fourth declension.[1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It first appears in a speech of Cicero, in a fragment quoted by Quintilian (huius persuasu et inductu, “at this man's persuasion and prompting”), and in the Rhetorica ad Herennium, of what an accused man did at another's prompting.[1][4][5]

Semantic evolution

Pliny the Younger, in his Panegyricus, uses it of informers “brought on” like robbers in a show.[1] A treatise on Luke's Gospel uses it for a water conduit.[6][3]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in a speech, quoted later by Quintilian.[1][4][7]
  • c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian quotes Cicero's persuasu et inductu.[1][4][7]

Meanings

Noun

  1. Inducement, prompting, instigation.[1][5][4]
  2. The bringing on of people in a show.[1]
  3. A water conduit.[6][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  2. ^ a b c d Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  4. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  5. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  7. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de