seductus Latin · revision 34407

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la dūcō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēductus''' (feminine sēducta, neuter sēductum, comparative sēductior); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|sēdūcō|t=to lead aside]]: its past participle, used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Conte 2010) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|sē-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|dūcō|t=to lead]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*douk-e-]] and [[ine-pro|*deuk-e/o-|t=to draw]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Livy,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of the senators' plans held in private and ''seducta a plurium conscientia'', kept from the knowledge of the many.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means set apart, far away, distant: Manilius and Seneca use it of remote signs in the sky and comets, Persius has ''paulum a turba seductior audi'', “step a little aside from the crowd and listen”, and Statius a mountain rising far into the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Of places it means retired, secluded, as Ovid's ''seductos recessus gurgitis'', and of people and their way of life withdrawn, as Seneca's ''seductum vitae genus'' and Pliny the Younger's secluded, almost rustic men.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Seneca also uses the neuter as a noun, ''in seducto'', in seclusion.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Medieval writers in Britain used it of a remote place and, in Wyclif, in the sense misleading, deceptive.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of plans kept from the many.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of secluded recesses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a withdrawn way of life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius has ''paulum a turba seductior''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Set apart, far away, [[m|en|distant]], remote.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Of places: retired, [[m|en|secluded]]; of people and their life: withdrawn.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Misleading, [[m|en|deceptive]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''in sēductō'': in seclusion, in solitude.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sēdūcō]]

+ * [[dūcō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Medieval Latin also had a noun ''sēductus'', “seduction, leading astray”, which Köbler records from 1425.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}