LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbthird conjugation

dētrahō

dētrahō (present infinitive dētrahere, perfect active dētrāxī, supine dētractum)
Classical[ˈdeː.tra.(ɦ)oː]Ecclesiastical[ˈdɛː.tra.o]
dētractō sg. dat. m. perf. pass. ptcp.; sg. dat. n. perf. pass. ptcp.; sg. abl. m. perf. pass. ptcp.; sg. abl. n. perf. pass. ptcp.

Meaning

  1. to draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw
    […]: mulis strata detrahi iubet binisque tantum centunculis relictis agasones partim captivis, partim aegrorum armis ornatos imponit.[…] : he orders the mules to be stripped off their saddles and, leaving them only some two small pieces of patchwork to be sat on, be mounted with their muleteers carrying weapons taken from either the prisoners or the sick.27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 7.14
  2. to take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob
  3. to pull down, drag down, lower
  4. to withhold, divert
  5. to withdraw, take away, remove; lower in estimation, disparage, detract from
    Nē illud quidem vidētis, quam omnem invidiam maiōrēs nostrī dominīs, omnem contumēliam servīs dētrāxerint?Do you not even see this, how our ancestors disparaged all resentment from masters and all abuse [of their] slaves? (A verb in the third person plural, perfect active subjunctive, used in the indirect question.)c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.14

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Conjugation conjugation 3

active indicative
formpresentimperfectfutureperfectpluperfectfut. perfect
1st sg.dētrahōdētrahēbamdētrahamdētrāxīdētrāxeramdētrāxerō
2nd sg.dētrahisdētrahēbāsdētrahēsdētrāxistīdētrāxerāsdētrāxeris
3rd sg.dētrahitdētrahēbatdētrahetdētrāxitdētrāxeratdētrāxerit
1st pl.dētrahimusdētrahēbāmusdētrahēmusdētrāximusdētrāxerāmusdētrāxerimus
2nd pl.dētrahitisdētrahēbātisdētrahētisdētrāxistisdētrāxerātisdētrāxeritis
3rd pl.dētrahuntdētrahēbantdētrahentdētrāxērunt
dētrāxēre		dētrāxerantdētrāxerint
active subjunctive
active subjunctive
formpresentimperfectperfectpluperfect
1st sg.dētrahamdētraheremdētrāxerimdētrāxissem
2nd sg.dētrahāsdētraherēsdētrāxerīsdētrāxissēs
3rd sg.dētrahatdētraheretdētrāxeritdētrāxisset
1st pl.dētrahāmusdētraherēmusdētrāxerīmusdētrāxissēmus
2nd pl.dētrahātisdētraherētisdētrāxerītisdētrāxissētis
3rd pl.dētrahantdētraherentdētrāxerintdētrāxissent
passive indicative
passive indicative
formpresentimperfectfuture
1st sg.dētrahordētrahēbardētrahar
2nd sg.dētraheris
dētrahere		dētrahēbāris
dētrahēbāre		dētrahēris
dētrahēre
3rd sg.dētrahiturdētrahēbāturdētrahētur
1st pl.dētrahimurdētrahēbāmurdētrahēmur
2nd pl.dētrahiminīdētrahēbāminīdētrahēminī
3rd pl.dētrahunturdētrahēbanturdētrahentur
passive subjunctive
passive subjunctive
formpresentimperfect
1st sg.dētrahardētraherer
2nd sg.dētrahāris
dētrahāre		dētraherēris
dētraherēre
3rd sg.dētrahāturdētraherētur
1st pl.dētrahāmurdētraherēmur
2nd pl.dētrahāminīdētraherēminī
3rd pl.dētrahanturdētraherentur
imperative
imperative
formactivepassive
pres. 2nd sg.dētrahedētrahere
pres. 2nd pl.dētrahitedētrahiminī
fut. 2nd sg.dētrahitōdētrahitor
fut. 3rd sg.dētrahitōdētrahitor
fut. 2nd pl.dētrahitōte—
fut. 3rd pl.dētrahuntōdētrahuntor
infinitives & participles
formactivepassive
present infinitivedētraheredētrahī
perfect infinitivedētrāxisse
dētrāxe		dētractum esse
future infinitivedētractūrum essedētractum īrī
present participledētrahēns—
perfect participle—dētractus
dētracta, dētractā, dētractae, dētractam, dētractārum, dētractās, dētracte, dētractī, dētractīs, dētractō, dētractōrum, dētractōs
future participledētractūrus
dētractūra, dētractūrā, dētractūrae, dētractūram, dētractūrārum, dētractūrās, dētractūre, dētractūrī, dētractūrīs, dētractūrō, dētractūrōrum, dētractūrōs, dētractūrum		dētrahendus
dētrahundus
gerunddētrahendī, dētrahendō, dētrahendumsupinedētractum, dētractū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person.

dē-trăho, xi, ctum, 3 (
I. inf. perf. sync. detraxe, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 15), v. a., to draw or take off, draw away, draw or take down; to pull down; to take away, remove, withdraw (class. and very freq.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.
(a). With acc. and de or ex with abl.: crumenam sibi de collo, Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 7: anulum de digito, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 38: aliquem de curru, Cic. Cael. 14 fin. et saep.: aliquem ex cruce, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 6; so, stramenta e mulis, Caes. B. G. 7, 45, 2: homines ex provinciis, Cic. Prov. Cons. 1; cf.: inimicum ex Gallia, id. ib. 8, 19: Hannibalem ex Italia, Liv. 29, 20; aliquem pedibus e tribunali, Suet. Rhet. 6 et saep.—
(b). With acc. and dat.: nudo vestimenta detrahere me jubes, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 79: alicui anulum, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 31: vestem alicui, id. Eun. 4, 4, 40: amiculum alicui, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83: torquem alicui, id. Fin. 1, 7, 23: loricam alicui, Verg. A. 5, 260 et saep.: tegumenta scutis, Caes. B. G. 2, 21, 5: frenos equis, Liv. 4, 33 et saep.: virum equo, Liv. 22, 47; cf.: aliquem in transvehendo, Suet. Aug. 38.
(g). With acc. alone: vestimenta, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17: veste detracta, Cic. Brut. 75, 262: soccos detrahunt (servi), Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 72: detractis insignibus imperatoris, Caes. B. C. 3, 96, 3: vestem, Cic. Brut. 75, 262; statuas, Just. 38, 8, 12.—
(d). With ad, in, or trans: castella trans Euphraten, Tac. A. 15, 17 et saep.: aliquem in judicium, Cic. Mil. 8, 38; cf.: aliquem ad accusationem, id. Clu. 68, 179: aliquem ad aequum certamen, Liv. 22, 13: tauros ad terram cornibus, Suet. Claud. 21; cf.: naves ad terram, Auct. B. Alex. 10 fin.: dominationem in carcerem et catenas, Flor. 1, 24, 3.—
B. In partic.
1. In medic. lang., to purge, Cels. 2, 10 fin.; Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 48 et saep.—
2. With the accessory idea of depriving or diminishing, to remove, withdraw, take away a thing from any one; to draw off, remove, take away from any thing.
(a). With acc. and de or ex with abl.: multa de suis commodis, Cic. Lael. 16, 57: aliquid de summa, Lucr. 3, 513; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 78, § 181: aliquid ex ea summa, id. Att. 10, 5; and: nihil de vivo, id. Fl. 37: ex tertia acie singulas cohortes, Caes. B. C. 3, 89, 3; cf.: detractis cohortibus duabus, id. B. G. 3, 2, 3.—
(b). With acc. and dat.: cum ei eidem detraxisset Armeniam, Cic. Div. 2, 37 fin.: scuto militi detracto, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: coronam capiti, Liv. 38, 47; cf. Hor. S. 1, 10, 48: auxilia illi, Caes. B. G. 6, 5, 5: fasces indigno (opp. deferre), Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 34 et saep.: pellem hostiae, to flay, Vulg. Levit. 1, 6.—
(g). With acc. and ab with abl.: aliquid ab homine, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 30.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to pull down, to lower (very rarely): regum majestatem ab summo fastigio ad medium, Liv. 37, 45, 18: superbiam, Vulg. Isa. 23, 9.—Far more freq.,
B. In partic. (acc. to no. I. B. 2.), to withdraw, take away, take; to lower in estimation, disparage, detract from.
(a). With de or ex: detractis de homine sensibus, Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 30; cf.: quicquam de nostra benevolentia, id. Fam. 5, 2 fin.: tantum sibi de facultate, id. Brut. 70 fin.; cf.: studiose de absentibus detrahendi causa, severe dicitur, id. Off. 1, 37, 134: de ipso, qui scripsit, detrahi nihil volo, Cic. Pis. 29, 71: aliquid de aliquo, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7: de hoc senatu detrahere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 20; so, de aliquo, id. Att. 11, 11 fin.; Nep. Chabr. 3, 3: de se, Cic. Ac. 2, 5, 15; cf.: de rebus gestis alicujus, Nep. Timol. 5, 3: quantum detraxit ex studio, tantum amisit ex gloria, Cic. Brut. 67, 236; cf. id. Div. ap. Caecil. 15, 49; id. Fam. 1, 5, a.—
(b). With dat.: nihil tibi detraxit senatus nisi, etc. (opp. dare), id. ib. 1, 5, b; cf. opp. concedere, id. de Or. 2, 71; Quint. 11, 1, 71: honorem debitum ordini, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11: illam opinionem maerenti, id. Tusc. 3, 31, 76: auctoritatem Cottae, Quint. 6, 5, 10: fidem sibi, id. 2, 17, 15; 5, 7, 4 al.: errorem animis, Ov. M. 2, 39: multum alicui, Nep. Eum. 1, 2: regi, Vulg. Eccles. 10, 20.—
(g). Absol.: aliquid dicere detrahendae spoliandaeque dignitatis alicujus gratia, Cic. Cael. 2 et saep.: laudis simulatione detrahitur, Quint. 8, 6, 55; id. 12, 9, 7.—
C. To withhold: ususfructus in mancipanda proprietate detrahi potest, Gai. Inst. 2, 33.

Origins

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

Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahō Latin dētrahō From dē- + trahō (“to drag”).

Descendants
  • Catalandetreure
  • Catalandetractar
  • Englishdetract
  • Frenchdétracter
  • Italiandetrarre
  • Portuguesedetrair
  • Spanishdetraer
  • Galiciandetraer
  • Sicilianditràjiri

In English words that came into English from dētrahō

  • detractdetractum
  • detractiondētractiō

Quick answers

What does dētrahō mean in Latin?
dētrahō, a verb, means “to draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw; to take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob”.
What are the principal parts of dētrahō?
dētrahō, dētrahere, dētrāxī, dētractum (third conjugation).
How do you pronounce dētrahō?
In classical Latin, [ˈdeː.tra.(ɦ)oː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈdɛː.tra.o].
Where does dētrahō come from?
Proto-Indo-European *de → Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ → Proto-Italic *dē → Latin dētrahō.