reductus Latin · revision 35993

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la dūcō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''reductus''' (feminine reducta, neuter reductum, comparative reductior); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|redūcō|t=to lead back, draw back]]: its perfect passive participle, used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|dūcō|t=to lead]], which goes back to [[ine-pro|*deuk-e/o-|t=to draw]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero pairs ''producta'' and ''reducta'' to render two Stoic terms, things to be preferred and things to be passed over.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As an adjective of place it appears in Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who has a wave split itself into deep-set bays: ''in sinus scindit sese unda reductos''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of places it means drawn back, deep-set, and so retired or remote: Virgil and Horace both speak of a secluded valley.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace uses it figuratively when he calls virtue a mean between vices, drawn back from either extreme.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Quintilian it is a painter's term for parts of a picture set back and made less prominent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the neuter plural for Stoic things to be passed over.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a deep-set bay and a secluded valley.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of virtue removed from both extremes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of parts set back in a painting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # (of a valley or inlet) [[m|en|recede|alt=Receding]] deeply, set back; [[m|en|secluded]], remote.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(painting)'' Set back, less prominent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Drawn back, removed (from an extreme).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(neuter plural as a noun, philosophy)'' Things to be passed over, rendering a Stoic term.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}