dēdūcō

Meaning

1. to lead or bring out or away, divert; escort, accompany, conduct (out of one's house as a mark of respect or for protection)
   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.c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo 215
2. to lead, fetch, bring or draw down; weigh down, outweigh
3. to deduct, subtract, diminish, reduce
   […] 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.44 BCE, Cicero, De officiis 1.18.59
4. to stretch out, extend, draw out
   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.c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 9.7.2
5. to lead forth or conduct a colony to a certain place; found (a colony)
   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.44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippicae 13.31
6. to bring to trial; bring before a tribunal as a witness
   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.59 BCE, Cicero, Pro Flacco 6.9
7. to withhold
   non enim ipse ususfructus mancipatur sed cum in mancipanda proprietate deducaturc. 160 CE, Gaius, Institutiones 2.33
8. to withdraw, remove, draw off, lead off (troops from one place to another); conduct or bring to a place
   Caesar Antonii exercitu coniuncto deducta Orico legione, quam tuendae orae maritimae causa posueratCaesar, having withdrawn his garrisons from the sea-coast, as we have related above, left three cohorts at Oricum to defend the townc. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 3.34
9. to draw out a ship (from a port), launch
   […] ex navalibus eorum navem deducit[…] drew out one of their ships out of dock.c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 2.3.2
10. rareto draw a ship into port
    onerarias naves, quas ubique possunt deprehendunt atque in portum deducuntThey seize all the merchantmen they could meet with, and draw them into the harbor.c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 1.36.2
11. to spin or draw out (the thread); weave
    e quibus una levi deducens pollice filumThen one of them speaks, spinning the thread lightly with her thumb8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.36
12. figurativelyto mislead, seduce, entice, win over, induce
    celeriter adulescentibus et oratione magistratus et praemio deductisThe young men being easily won over by the speech of the magistrate and the bribec. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 7.37
13. figurativelyto spin out, elaborate, prepare, describe, compose
    […] 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 time8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.3–4
14. figurativelyto derive, discover, deduce
    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.77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 25.4.44
15. figurativelyto cure, cleanse, remove
    / 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.20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horatius, Epistulae 1.2.48
16. figurativelyto make finer, thinner or weaker, attenuate

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Conjugation conjugation 3 irregular

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

deducere aliquem de domo

to escort a person from his house.

de sententia aliquem deducere, movere

to make a man change his opinion.

res eo or in eum locum deducta est, ut...

the matter has gone so far that...; the state of affairs is such that...

de fide deducere or a fide abducere aliquem

to undermine a person's loyalty.

milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere

to take the troops to their winter-quarters.

navem deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)

to launch a boat.

de capite deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...) aliquid

to subtract something from the capital.

coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)

to found a colony somewhere.

Origins

1. Proto-Indo-European*de
2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
3. Proto-Italic*dē
4. Latindēdūcō

Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin dēdūcō From dē- + dūcō (“lead, pull”).

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