# produco
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /proˈdu.ko/
* Rhymes: -uko
* Hyphenation: pro‧dù‧co

### Verb

produco
* first-person singular present indicative of produrre

## Latin
### Etymology

From prō- +‎ dūcō (“lead; draw”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /proːˈduː.koː/, [proːˈd̪uːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /proˈdu.ko/, [proˈd̪uːko]

### Verb

prōdūcō (present infinitive prōdūcere, perfect active prōdūxī, supine prōductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
* to lead or bring forth, forward or out
    Synonyms: profero, praefero, affero, expōnō, summittō, prōpōnō, edo
* to conduct to; bring before, present
    Synonyms: duco, deduco, ago, traduco, veho, perfero
* to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extend
* to bring to light, disclose, expose
* to advance, draw out
* to bring forth, bear, beget; bring up, rear, educate
* to expose for sale
* to place [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘before another’]
** 2 CE, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria‎, archived from the original on 2018-10-23, book 2, lines 211-2:Nec dubitā teretī scamnum prōdūcere lectō, Et tenerō soleam dēme vel adde pedī.And do not hesitate to put a bench in front of the smooth bed and take a sandal off of, or put it on, her tender foot.
* (grammar, of pronunciation) to lengthen, prolong
* (figuratively) to bring into use, make, invent devise, produce
* (figuratively) to raise, promote, advance
* (figuratively) to lead or induce someone to do something, entice
* (figuratively) to draw or drag out, lengthen out, prolong, protract
* (figuratively, of time) to pass, spend
* (figuratively) to plant, cultivate

#### Derived terms

* prōdūcibilis
* prōductilis
* prōductiō
* prōductīvus
* prōductō
* prōductor
* prōductus
* prōdux

#### Related terms

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

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: produir
* → Dutch: produceren
* → English: produce
* → French: produire
* Friulian: produsi
* → Galician: producir
* → Italian: produrre
* Lombard: prodù
* → Neapolitan: producere
* Occitan: produire, produsir
* Piedmontese: prodùe, produve
* → Portuguese: produzir
* → Romanian: produce
* → Sicilian: prudùciri
* → Spanish: producir
* → Venetan: prodùr, prodùxer
* → German: produzieren

### References

* “produco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “produco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* produco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to introduce a character on the stage: in scaenam producere aliquem to lengthen the pronunciation of a syllable or letter: syllabam, litteram producere (opp. corripere) (Quintil. 9. 4. 89) to prolong a conversation far into the night: sermonem producere in multam noctem (Rep. 6. 10. 10) to produce as a witness: aliquem testem producere to lead the army to the fight: exercitum educere or producere in aciem