seduco Latin · revision 32275

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēdūcō''' (present infinitive sēdūcere, perfect active sēdūxī, supine sēductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sē-|dūcō|t1=apart, aside|t2=to lead]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|dūcō]] to [[itc-pro|*douk-e-]] and [[ine-pro|*deuk-e/o-|t=to draw]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Plautus' ''Asinaria'': “the old man took me aside today alone, away from the house”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to draw a person aside, and to lead someone out of harm's way, as Cicero asks what crime it was unless that it led someone away from the death due to him on the Ides of March.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ulpian it is to lead astray or entice.^(OLD 2012) Of things it is to move away or separate, as Ovid's new earth lately drawn away from the sky; to withdraw from society, to appropriate, as Seneca of greed that seeks to draw something aside for itself, and in the passive to withdraw mentally.^(OLD 2012) Ovid also uses it of birds dividing into two camps.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to lead astray, seduce, deceive.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|seduce]] (1520s) first meant to persuade a vassal to desert his allegiance; the sexual sense appears in the 1550s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of taking someone aside.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of leading someone out of harm's way.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the earth separated from the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of leading astray.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English [[m|en|seduce]] is formed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To draw aside; to lead out of harm's way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To lead astray, entice;^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary) ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' to [[m|en|seduce]], deceive.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To move away, withdraw; to separate off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To withdraw from society; to [[m|en|appropriate]]; in the passive, to withdraw mentally.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To draw apart, divide.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sēductibilis]]

+ * [[sēductilis]]

+ * [[sēductiō]]

+ * [[sēductor]]

+ * [[sēductōrius]]

+ * [[sēductrīx]]

+ * [[sēductus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abdūcō]]

+ * [[addūcō]]

+ * [[circumdūcō]]

+ * [[condūcō]]

+ * [[dēdūcō]]

+ * [[dīdūcō]]

+ * [[dūcō]]

+ * [[ēdūcō]]

+ * [[indūcō]]

+ * [[intrōdūcō]]

+ * [[en|seduce]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}