# deduco
## Italian
### Pronunciation

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### Verb

deduco
* first-person singular present indicative of dedurre

## Latin
### Etymology

From dē- +‎ dūcō (“lead, pull”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /deːˈduː.koː/, [d̪eːˈd̪uːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /deˈdu.ko/, [d̪eˈd̪uːko]

### Verb

dēdūcō (present infinitive dēdūcere, perfect active dēdūxī, supine dēductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
* to lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protection)
** c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 215:respondent bello se et suos tutari posse proinde uti / propere de suis finibus exercitus deducerentThey answered that they were able in warfare to protect themselves and theirs, and that at once they must lead the army with all haste out of their territories.
* to lead, fetch, bring or draw down; weigh down, outweigh
* to deduct, subtract, diminish, reduce
** 44 BCE, Cicero, De Officiis 1.18.59: […] ut boni ratiocinatores officiorum esse possimus et addendo deducendoque videre quae reliqui summa fiat ex quo quantum cuique debeatur intellegas […] , in order to become good calculators of duty, able by adding and subtracting to strike a balance correctly and find out just how much is due to each individual.
* to stretch out, extend, draw out
** c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 9.7.2:et deducto circino ab eo centro ad lineam planitiae ubi erit littera B circinatio circuli describatur quae dicitur meridianaand extending the compasses from that centre to the extremity B of the said line, let a circle be described; this is called the meridian.
* to lead forth or conduct a colony to a certain place; found (a colony)
** 44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippicae 13.31:veteranorum colonias deductas lege senatus consulto sustulistisYou, by a resolution of the senate, have removed the colonies of the veterans which had been settled by law.
* (law) to bring to trial; bring before a tribunal as a witness
** 59 BCE, Cicero, Pro Flacco 6.9:sed sunt in illo numero multi boni docti pudentes qui ad hoc iudicium deducti non suntbut there are in that number many virtuous, learned, modest men, who have not been brought here to this trial.
* (law) to withhold
** c. 160 CE, Gaius, Institutiones 2.33:non enim ipse ususfructus mancipatur sed cum in mancipanda proprietate deducaturFor the usufruct itself is not mancipated, but in mancipating the property the usufruct is withheld.
* (military) to withdraw, remove, draw off, lead off (troops from one place to another); conduct or bring to a place
** c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.34:Caesar Antonii exercitu coniuncto deducta Orico legione, quam tuendae orae maritimae causa posueratCaesar, having withdrawn his garrisons from the sea-coast, as we have related above, left three cohorts at Oricum to defend the town
* (nautical) to draw out a ship (from a port), launch
** c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 2.3.2: […] ex navalibus eorum navem deducit […] drew out one of their ships out of dock.
* (rare, nautical) to draw a ship into port
** c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 1.36.2:onerarias naves, quas ubique possunt deprehendunt atque in portum deducuntThey seize all the merchantmen they could meet with, and draw them into the harbor.
* (in weaving) to spin or draw out (the thread); weave
** 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.36:e quibus una levi deducens pollice filumThen one of them speaks, spinning the thread lightly with her thumb
* (figuratively) to mislead, seduce, entice, win over, induce
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.37:celeriter adulescentibus et oratione magistratus et praemio deductisThe young men being easily won over by the speech of the magistrate and the bribe
* (figuratively, of a literary composition) to spin out, elaborate, prepare, describe, compose
** 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.3–4: […] primaque ab origine mundi / ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen / […] and spin out a continuous thread of words, from the world's first origins to my own time
* (figuratively, of the origin of words) to derive, discover, deduce
** c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.4.44:quartum genus panaces ab eodem Chirone repertum centaurion cognominatur sed et Pharnaceon in controversia inventionis a Pharnace rege deductumA fourth kind of panaceas, discovered also by Chiron, is denominated as "centaurion," but also "pharnacion," derived from King Pharnaces; it being a matter in dispute of faculty of invention.
* (figuratively, of physical evils) to cure, cleanse, remove
** 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.2.48:/ non domus et fundus non aeris acervus et auri / aegroto domini deduxit corpore febris / non animo curasNot house or grounds, not heaps of brass or gold will cure the frame of fever's heat and cold or cleanse the heart of care.
* (figuratively, borrowed from the idea of spinning) to make finer, thinner or weaker, attenuate

#### Synonyms

* (accompany, escort): comitor, cōnsequor, prōsequor, sequor, stīpō
* (conduct): ago, duco, produco, traduco, veho, perfero
* (mislead, induce): sollicitō, indūcō, sēdūcō, suādeō, persuādeō, perdūcō, conciliō, alliciō, pelliciō, capiō
* (deduce): īnferō

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “induce”): dissuādeō, tardō, obiūrgō

#### Derived terms

* dēductim
* dēductiō
* dēductīvus
* dēductor
* dēductōrius
* dēductus

#### Related terms

* abdūcō
* addūcō
* circumdūcō
* condūcō
* dīdūcō
* dūcō
* ēdūcō
* indūcō
* intrōdūcō
* obdūcō
* perdūcō
* praedūcō
* praeterdūcō
* prōdūcō
* redūcō
* sēdūcō
* subdūcō
* subterdūcō
* superdūcō
* trādūcō, trānsdūcō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: deduir
* English: deduce, deduct
* French: déduire
* Italian: dedurre
* Portuguese: deduzir
* Romanian: deduce
* Sicilian: didùciri
* Spanish: deducir

### References

* “deduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “deduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* deduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33) to undermine a person's loyalty: de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem to escort a person from his house: deducere aliquem de domo to subtract something from the capital: de capite deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) aliquid to found a colony somewhere: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere to launch a boat: navem deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)