English → Latin
“reduce” in Latin
redūcōto lead, draw, bring or conduct back; bring or accompany home; to withdraw, cause to retreat, draw back, remove; to brinredigōto drive, lead, or bring back; to call in, collect, raise, receive; to reduce to a certain staterevocōto recall (troops, etc.), to call back; to withdraw; to revivedomōto tame, break in; to subdue, conquer, vanquishcontrahōto draw in, bring or drag several objects together; collect, assemble, gather, amass; to bring about, accomplish, executminuōto make smaller, lessen, diminish, reduce, minimize; to attenuate, appease, suppress, repress, quell; to dismember, tearimmineōto project, bend or lean toward or over, overhang; to touch on, border upon; to threaten, menace
The English word reduce itself goes back to Latin dūcō, through redūcō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
reduce
To bring again or back, reducere: redigere: revocare: to reduce a sum to our money, *ad nostrae pecuniae rationem revocare aliquid.
To constrain, force, redigere (e.g., ad nihilum, in formam provinciae, in ordinem, etc.).
To subdue, vi subjicere: domare: in ditionem redigere.
To lessen, bring down, *ad minorem modum redigere (to make smaller): contrahere (to contract): minuere, imminuere. To reduce the price of anything, pretium alicujus rei imminuere: to reduce the price of corn, annonam laxare, levare; pretium frumenti minuere; frugum pretia levare; ex hominum millibus LX. vix ad D., qui arma ferre possent, fere redactos esse dixerunt (Caes., B.G., 2, 28; reduced from sixty thousand to scarce five hundred).
To reduce fractions, *fractiones ad minimos numeros reducere (technical term).
To reduce a dislocation; Vid: DISLOCATION.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for reduce?
- The usual Latin words for “reduce” are redūcō, redigō, revocō; also domō, contrahō, minuō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.