verbthird conjugation, irregular short imperative
addūcō
addūcō (present infinitive addūcere, perfect active addūxī, supine adductum)
Classical[adˈduː.koː]Ecclesiastical[adˈduː.ko]
№ 886 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- to lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself
quod vererentur ne, omni pacata Gallia, ad eos exercitus noster adduceretur
Because they feared that, with all of Gaul pacified, our army would be led against themc. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 2.1.2 - to prompt, induce, cause
adducere in ius/iudicium
to cite to the court, to sue - to persuade, move
- to wrinkle, contract, shrink
- to tighten or pull tight; (also) to contract
Cum apparitor uerecundia maiestatis Postumi laxe uinciret, "quin tu" inquit "adduces lorum, ut iusta fiat deditio?"[…]
27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 9.11adducto contortum hastile lacerto / immittit
29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 11.561–562
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ad locum dūcō.addūcō -ere addūxī — in Mille Verba, ch. Via et Iter
ad aliquem dūcōaddūcō -ere — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 12, 13
lead to; induce
addūcō -ere, -dūxī — in De Bello Gallico II and De Bello Gallico III
Conjugation conjugation 3 irregular
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | addūcō | addūcēbam | addūcam | addūxī | addūxeram | addūxerō |
| 2nd sg. | addūcis | addūcēbās | addūcēs | addūxistī | addūxerās | addūxeris |
| 3rd sg. | addūcit | addūcēbat | addūcet | addūxit | addūxerat | addūxerit |
| 1st pl. | addūcimus | addūcēbāmus | addūcēmus | addūximus | addūxerāmus | addūxerimus |
| 2nd pl. | addūcitis | addūcēbātis | addūcētis | addūxistis | addūxerātis | addūxeritis |
| 3rd pl. | addūcunt | addūcēbant | addūcent | addūxērunt addūxēre | addūxerant | addūxerint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | addūcam | addūcerem | addūxerim | addūxissem |
| 2nd sg. | addūcās | addūcerēs | addūxerīs | addūxissēs |
| 3rd sg. | addūcat | addūceret | addūxerit | addūxisset |
| 1st pl. | addūcāmus | addūcerēmus | addūxerīmus | addūxissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | addūcātis | addūcerētis | addūxerītis | addūxissētis |
| 3rd pl. | addūcant | addūcerent | addūxerint | addūxissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | addūcor | addūcēbar | addūcar |
| 2nd sg. | addūceris addūcere | addūcēbāris addūcēbāre | addūcēris addūcēre |
| 3rd sg. | addūcitur | addūcēbātur | addūcētur |
| 1st pl. | addūcimur | addūcēbāmur | addūcēmur |
| 2nd pl. | addūciminī | addūcēbāminī | addūcēminī |
| 3rd pl. | addūcuntur | addūcēbantur | addūcentur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | addūcar | addūcerer |
| 2nd sg. | addūcāris addūcāre | addūcerēris addūcerēre |
| 3rd sg. | addūcātur | addūcerētur |
| 1st pl. | addūcāmur | addūcerēmur |
| 2nd pl. | addūcāminī | addūcerēminī |
| 3rd pl. | addūcantur | addūcerentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | addūc addūce | addūcere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | addūcite | addūciminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | addūcitō | addūcitor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | addūcitō | addūcitor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | addūcitōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | addūcuntō | addūcuntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | addūcere | addūcī |
| perfect infinitive | addūxisse | adductum esse |
| future infinitive | adductūrum esse | adductum īrī |
| present participle | addūcēns | — |
| perfect participle | — | adductus adducta, adductā, adductae, adductam, adductārum, adductās, adducte, adductī, adductīs, adductō, adductōrum, adductōs |
| future participle | adductūrus adductūra, adductūrā, adductūrae, adductūram, adductūrārum, adductūrās, adductūre, adductūrī, adductūrīs, adductūrō, adductūrōrum, adductūrōs, adductūrum | addūcendus addūcundus |
gerundaddūcendī, addūcendō, addūcendumsupineadductum, adductū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- habenas adducere
- to tighten the reins.
- addūcor, ut credam
- I am gradually convinced that...
- in oblivionem adduci
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion.
- ad finem aliquid adducere
- to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing.
- in invidiam adducere aliquem
- to make a person odious, unpopular.
- in angustias adducere aliquem
- to place some one in an embarrassing position.
- non possum adduci, ut (credam)
- I cannot make myself believe that...
- in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
- to conceive a hope.
17 more phrases
- exercitum admovere, adducere ad...
- to advance on...
- res ad interregnum venit or adducitur
- an interregnum ensues.
- adduci aliqua re (ad aliquid or ut...)
- to be induced by a consideration.
- in maximas angustias (pecuniae) adduci
- to be reduced to extreme financial embarrassment.
- aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut
- to induce a person to think that...
- ad sanitatem adducere, revocare aliquem
- to bring some one back to his senses.
- in controversiam vocare, adducere aliquid
- to make a thing the subject of controversy.
- in maximam spem aliquem adducere (Att. 2. 22. 3)
- to inspire some one with the most brilliant hopes.
- ad misericordiam aliquem allicere, adducere, inducere
- to arouse feelings of compassion in some one.
- ad (summam) desperationem pervenire, adduci (B. C. 2. 42)
- to be plunged into the depths of despair.
- aliquem, aliquid in periculum (discrimen) adducere, vocare
- to endanger, imperil a person or thing.
- gentem ad internecionem redigere or adducere (B. G. 2. 28)
- to completely annihilate a nation.
- aliquem in summam exspectationem adducere (Tusc. 1. 17. 39)
- to rouse a person's expectation, curiosity to the highest pitch.
- in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
- to be contested, become the subject of debate.
- aliquem in suspicionem adducere (alicui), aliquem suspectum reddere
- to make a person suspected.
- aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere
- to win a man over to one's own way of thinking.
- aliquem in oblivionem alicuius rei adducere (pass. in oblivionem venire)
- to make a person forget a thing.
ad-dūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (adduce for adduc, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 15; Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 29; Afr. ap. Non. 174, 32:
I.
adduxti for adduxisti, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 15; id. Eun. 4, 7, 24: adduxe = adduxisse, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 3), to lead to, to bring or convey to, draw to any place or to one's self (opp. abduco, q. v.; syn.: adfero, apporto, adveho, induco). I. Lit.:
quaeso, quī possim animum bonum habere, qui te ad me adducam domum, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 78: ille alter venit, quem secum adduxit Parmenio, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 27; Afr. ap. Non. 174, 32: quos secum Mitylenis Cratippus adduxit, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 5: Demetrius Epimachum secum adduxit, Vitr. 10, 22, 262.—With ad: ad lenam, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 65; cf. id. Mil. 3, 1, 193: ad cenam, Lucil. ap. Non. 159, 25 (cf.: abduxi ad cenam, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2 9): adduxit ea ad Adam, Vulg. Gen. 2, 19; ib. Marc. 14, 53.—Or with a local adv.: tu istos adduce intro, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 54: quia te adducturam huc dixeras eumpse non eampse, id. Truc. 1, 2, 31; so Ter. And. 5, 3, 29: adduc huc filium tuum, Vulg. Luc. 9, 41. —2. In gen., without regard to the access. idea of accompanying, to lead or bring a person or thing to a place, to take or conduct from one place to another (of living beings which have the power of motion, while affero is properly used of things: attuli hunc. Pseud. Quid? attulisti? Ca. Adduxi volui dicere, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 21).—So of conducting an army:
exercitum, Cic. Att. 7, 9: aquam, to lead to, id. Cael. 14.—With in: gentes feras in Italiam, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2; cf. Oud. ad Caes. B. G. 4, 22, and Auct. B. G. 8, 35: in judicium adductus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 10, 28: adducta res in judicium est, id. Off. 3, 16, 67; so id. Clu. 17.—With dat.: puero nutricem adducit, Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 4: qui ex Gallia pueros venales isti adducebat, Cic. Quint. 6.—Poet. with acc.: Diae telluris ad oras applicor et dextris adducor litora remis, Ov. M. 3, 598 (cf. advertor oras Scythicas, id. ib. 5, 649, and Rudd. II. p. 327): adducere ad populum, i. e. in judicium populi vocare, Cic. Agr. 2, 6.—Of a courtesan, to procure: puero scorta, Nep. Dion, 5: paelicem, Ov. Fast. 3, 483.—Poet. also of a place, which is, as it were, brought near. Thus Hor. in describing the attractions of his Sabine farm: dicas adductum propius frondere Tarentum, Ep. 1, 16, 11.—B. Esp.
1. To bring a thing to a destined place by drawing or pulling, to draw or pull to one's self:
tormenta eo graviores emissiones habent, quo sunt contenta atque adducta vehementius, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24: adducto arcu, Verg. A. 5, 507; so, adducta sagitta, id. ib. 9, 632: utque volat moles, adducto concita nervo, Ov. M. 8, 357: adducta funibus arbor corruit, id. ib. 775: funem, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: so Luc. 3, 700: colla parvis lacertis, Ov. M. 6, 625: equos, id. Fast. 6, 586.—Hence trop.: habenas amicitiae, to tighten, Cic. Lael. 13, 45; cf. Verg. A. 9, 632, and 1, 63.—2. Of the skin or a part of the body, to draw up, wrinkle, contract:
adducit cutem macies, wrinkles the skin, Ov. M. 3, 397: sitis miseros adduxerat artus, Verg. G. 3, 483; so, frontem (opp. remittere), to contract: interrogavit, quae causa frontis tam adductae? a brow so clouded? Quint. 10, 3, 13; so Sen. Benef. 1, 1.II. Fig.
A. To bring a person or thing into a certain condition; with ad or in:
numquam animum quaesti gratiā ad malas adducam partīs, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 38: rem adduci ad interregnum, Cic. Att. 7, 9: ad arbitrium alterius, id. Fam. 5, 20: ad suam auctoritatem, id. Deiot. 10, 29: numquam prius discessit, quam ad finem sermo esset adductus, Nep. Ep. 3: iambos ad umbilicum adducere, Hor. Epod. 14, 8: in discrimen extremum, Cic. Phil. 6, 7; cf. Liv. 45, 8: in summas angustias, Cic. Quint. 5: in invidiam falso crimine, id. Off. 3, 20: in necessitatem, Liv. 8, 7: vitam in extremum, Tac. A. 14, 61.—B. To bring or lead one to a certain act, feeling, or opinion; to prompt, induce, prevail upon, persuade, move, incite to it; with ad, in, or ut (very freq. and class., and for the most part in a good sense; while seducere and inducere denote instigating or seducing to something bad, Herz. Caes. B. G. 1, 3;
although there are exceptions, as the foll. examples show): ad misericordiam, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 42: ad nequitiem, id. Ad. 3, 3, 4: ad iracundiam, ad fletum, Cic. Brut. 93, 322: quae causa ad facinus adduxit, id. Rosc. Am. 31: in metum, id. Mur. 24: in summam exspectationem, id. Tusc. 1, 17: in spem, id. Att. 2, 22: in opinionem, id. Fam. 1, 1: in suspicionem alicui, Nep. Hann. 7: ad paenitentiam, Vulg. Rom. 2, 4; ib. 10, 19.—With gerund: ad suspicandum, Cic. Pr. Cons. 16: ad credendum, Nep. Con. 3.—With ut: adductus sum officio, fide, misericordia, etc., ut onus hoc laboris mihi suscipiendum putarem, Cic. Verr. 1, 2: nullo imbre, nullo frigore adduci, ut capite operto sit, id. de Sen. 10: id. Cat. 1, 2; id. Fam. 3, 9; 6, 10, etc.; Caes. B. G. 6, 12; Liv. 4, 49 al.—And absol. in pass.: quibus rebus adductus ad causam accesserim demonstravi, Cic. Verr. 1, 3: his rebus adducti, being induced, Caes. B. G. 1, 3; 6, 10.—With quin: adduci nequeo quin existimem, Suet. Tib. 21.—With inf.: facilius adducor ferre humana humanitus, Afr. ap. Non. 514, 20.—C. Adducor with inf., or with ut and subj. = adducor ad credendum, πείθομαι, to be induced to believe:
ego non adducor, quemquam bonum ullam salutem putare mihi tanti fuisse, Cic. Att. 11, 16: ut jam videar adduci, hanc quoque, quae te procrearit, esse patriam, id. Leg. 2, 3: illud adduci vix possum, ut ... videantur, id. Fin. 1, 5, 14; id. ib. 4, 20, 55; Lucr. 5, 1341.—Hence, adductus, a, um, P. a. A. Drawn tight, stretched, strained, contracted.—Trop.:
vultus, Suet. Tib. 68: frons in supercilia adductior, Capitol. Ver. 10; cf. Plin. Ep. 1, 16.—Hence, B. Of place, narrow, contracted, strait:
(Africa) ex spatio paulatim adductior, Mel. 1, 4.—C. Of character, strict, serious, severe:
modo familiaritate juvenili Nero et rursus adductus, quasi seria consociaret, Tac. A. 14, 4: adductum et quasi virile servitium, id. ib. 12, 7: vis pressior et adductior, Plin. Ep. 1, 16.—Sup. not used.—Adv. only in comp. adductĭus, 1. More tightly:
adductius contorquere jacula, Aus. Grat. Act. 27.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ad-dūcō dūxī, ductus, ere
(imper. adduce for adduc, T.—Perf. addūxtī for addūxistī, T.), to lead to, bring to, bring along (usu. of persons; cf. adfero, of things): quos Maecenas adduxerat umbras, brought along, H.: eos ad me domum adduxit <*> Iugurtham vinctum Romam, S.: in iudicium.— Poet.: dextris adducor litora remis, reach, O.— Rarely of things: aquam adduxi, brought into the city: carmen ad umbilicum, to finish, H.: sedulitas adducit febrīs, brings on, H.: Dicas adductum propius frondere Tarentum, the woods of Tarentum brought nearer (Rome), H. — Esp., to bring by drawing, draw, pull, stretch: tormenta quo sunt adducta vehementius: adducto arcu, V.: funes, Cs.: adductis lacertis, bent (in rowing), V.: colla parvis lacertis, to embrace, O.—Hence, fig.: habenas amicitiae, to tighten.—Of the skin, to draw up, wrinkle, contract: adducit cutem macies, wrinkles the skin, O.; cf. sitis miseros adduxerat artūs, V.—Fig., to bring to, bring into, bring under: ad suam auctoritatem: rem in extremum discrimen: me in necessitatem, L. — To bring, lead, prompt, move, induce, prevail upon, persuade, incite: te ad facinus: me in summam exspectationem: in spem, S.: ad suscipiendum bellum, Cs.: ad credendum, N.: adduci, ut capite operto sit: hoc nondum adducor ut faciam: quibus rebus adductus ad causam accesserim demonstravi: necessitate adductus, Cs.: adducti iudices sunt ... potuisse, etc., were led to believe that, etc.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinaddūcō
Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin addūcō From ad- (“to, towards, near”) + dūcō (“lead”).
Elsewhere
- Catalanadduir
- Englishadduce
- Englishadduct
- Frenchadduirefrom Old French aduire
- Italianaddurre
- Occitanadúser
- Occitanaduire
- Portugueseaduzirfrom Old Galician-Portuguese aduzer
- Sardinianaddúsiri
- Sardinianaddúxiri
Balkan Romance
- Romanianaduc
- Romanianaducere
- Aromanianaduc
- Aromanianaducu
- Aromanianadutsiri
Old Francoprovençal
- Franco-Provençaladduire
In English words that came into English from addūcō
- adduceaddūcō
- adductoraddūcō
- adductadductus
- adducentadducens