perduco Latin · revision 30782

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dewk-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈduː.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈduː.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perdūcō''' (present infinitive perdūcere, perfect active perdūxī, supine perductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative^(Wiktionary)

+ Serenus Sammonicus has the imperative ''perdūce'' for ''perdūc''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|dūcō|t1=through|t2=to lead]], “to lead through”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|dūcō]] to [[itc-pro|*douke-]] and [[ine-pro|*dewk-|t=to draw, pull]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it for bringing someone round by persuasion: ''iam perdūcēbam illam ad mē suādēlā meā'', “I was already winning her over with my persuasion”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Terence has it for taking a person to a place.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Perdūcō'' is to bring or conduct a person to a place, to bring before a court, of roads to lead to a place, and of a pimp to bring someone to another's bed.^(OLD 2012) It is also to convey things (water by an aqueduct), to win over by persuasion, to bring to a condition (Cicero: anger drove Ajax to madness and death), and to carry a ditch or wall from one point to another (Caesar).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In time it is to prolong, continue, keep alive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It also means to bring an amount up or down to a figure, to smear or coat (Virgil), to cross out (in the jurists), and to drink off (Apuleius).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “lead to, bring to, guide, conduct”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''iam perdūcēbam illam ad mē''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of taking a son to a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: anger ''ad furōrem mortemque perdūxit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of carrying a double ditch between camps.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To lead, [[m|en|conduct]], bring (to a place).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To convey (things).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring over, win over, [[m|en|persuade]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring (to a condition).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To extend, carry (a ditch, a wall).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To prolong, continue; to pass (time).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring (an amount) up or down (to).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To coat, smear over.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cross out, erase; to drink off.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perductiō]]

+ * [[perductor]]

+ * [[perductō]]

+ * [[perductus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abdūcō]]

+ * [[addūcō]]

+ * [[circumdūcō]]

+ * [[condūcō]]

+ * [[dēdūcō]]

+ * [[dīdūcō]]

+ * [[dūcō]]

+ * [[ēdūcō]]

+ * [[indūcō]]

+ * [[intrōdūcō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}