# duco
## English
### Etymology

From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.

### Noun

duco (uncountable)
* (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
** 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35:A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.

### Verb

duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)
* (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.

### Anagrams

* cou'd, coud, docu, douc

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwkti, from the root *dewk- (“to draw, pull”). Cognate with English tow.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈduː.koː/, [ˈd̪uːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdu.ko/, [ˈd̪uːko]

### Verb

dūcō (present infinitive dūcere, perfect active dūxī, supine ductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
* to lead, guide, conduct, lead away
    Synonyms: moderor, ago, deduco, produco, perfero, traduco, impingo
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.527:cui dea ‘dūc!’ inquit ‘scīstī, quā cōgere possēs’To which the goddess replies: ‘‘Lead on! You have understood how you are able to compel me.’’ (A humble farmer named Celeus and his young daughter have spoken kindly to an old woman, and have invited her to visit their cottage, unaware that their guest is the goddess Ceres in disguise.)
* (by extension) to take
** c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64:In vestrās potuistī dūcere sēdēs.You could have taken (me) to your home.
* to draw, pull
* to think, consider, regard
* to marry, to take (as one's wife)
** c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 679:Propter dīvitiās meās, licuit uxōrem dōtātam genere summō dūcere.By reason of my wealth, I could have married a dowered wife of the best family.
* to prolong, to protract
    Synonym: prōdūco
* (military, transitive) to march, command, lead (e.g., an army)
* (passive voice with active voice meaning) to march (said of soldiers, lit. "be led")
    Diū mīlitēs dūcēbantur. ― For a long time, the soldiers were marching.
* to forge (rare)

#### Conjugation

In Classical Latin, sequor was an alternative passive of dūcō.

#### Derived terms

* abdūcō
* addūcō
* circumdūcō
* condūcō
* dēdūcō
* dīdūcō
* ēdūcō
* indūcō
* intrōdūcō
* obdūcō
* perdūcō
* praedūcō
* praeterdūcō
* prōdūcō
* redūcō
* sēdūcō
* subdūcō
* subterdūcō
* superdūcō
* trādūcō
* aquaeductus
* dūco uxōrem
* ductiō
* ductor
* ductus
* dux

#### Descendants

* English: -duce
* Aromanian: duc, dutsiri
* Catalan: dur
* French: -duire
* German: -duzieren (borrowed)
* Italian: ducere, -durre
* Megleno-Romanian: duc, duțiri
* Occitan: dúser, duire
* Old French: duire
* Portuguese: -duzir (conduzir) (produzir) (induzir)
* Romanian: duce, ducere
* Spanish: -ducir

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dūcō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181

### Further reading

* “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* duco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum a road leads somewhere: via fert, ducit aliquo to spend time: tempus ducere to lead some one by the hand: manu ducere aliquem to trace one's descent from some one: originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere to breathe, live: animam, spiritum ducere to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28) to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei) to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari to consider a thing creditable to a man: aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dare to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex... to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere to lead some one in triumph: per triumphum (in triumpho) aliquem ducere (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition: gloria duci (ambiguous) a thing is taken from life: aliquid e vita ductum est (ambiguous) to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare (ambiguous) to cherish a hope: spe duci, niti, teneri (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci