adduco Latin · revision 6674

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la dūcō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''addūcō''' (present infinitive addūcere, perfect active addūxī, supine adductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ad-|t=to]] and [[dūcō]] “to lead”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) ''Dūcō'' goes back to [[ine-pro|*dewk-|t=to lead]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of bringing a person or animal to a place.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to lead or bring a person to a place, bring along, to bring water to a town, to import, and in war to bring troops, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) In law it meant to bring before a court, prosecute.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it meant to induce, lead into a course, and to persuade, convince, as Cicero's ''adductus'' “influenced by”.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to bring into a state or situation, and physically to draw towards oneself, as Cicero's branch, to pull reins taut, to draw back a bowstring, and to draw together, contract, as of a frown.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It survives in Italian ''addurre'', Spanish ''aducir'' and Romanian ''aduce'' “to bring”.^(Wiktionary) [[en|adduce]] was borrowed in the early 15th century in the sense “to bring forward as evidence”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of bringing someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of persuading and of prosecuting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of drawing a bow.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''adduce'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To lead, [[m|en|bring]] (to a place); to bring along.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bring (troops).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bring before a court, prosecute.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To induce, lead (into a course of action).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|persuade]], convince.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bring into (a state or situation).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To draw towards oneself; to draw taut.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To draw together, contract.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adductor]]

+ * [[adductus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dūcō]]

+ * [[abdūcō]]

+ * [[en|adduce]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}