LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbthird conjugation, irregular short imperative

prōdūcō

prōdūcō (present infinitive prōdūcere, perfect active prōdūxī, supine prōductum)
Classical[proːˈduː.koː]Ecclesiastical[proˈduː.ko]

Meaning

  1. to lead or bring forth, forward or out
  2. to conduct to; bring before, present
  3. to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extend
  4. to bring to light, disclose, expose
  5. to advance, draw out
  6. to bring forth, bear, beget; bring up, rear, educate
  7. to expose for sale
  8. to place
    Nec dubitā teretī scamnum prōdūcere lectō, Et tenerō soleam dēme vel adde pedī.And do not hesitate to put a bench in front of the smooth bed and take a sandal off of, or put it on, her tender foot.2 CE, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2018, book 2, lines 211-2:
  9. to lengthen, prolong
  10. figurativelyto bring into use, make, invent, devise, produce
  11. figurativelyto raise, promote, advance
  12. figurativelyto lead or induce someone to do something, entice
  13. figurativelyto draw or drag out, lengthen out, prolong, protract
  14. figurativelyto pass, spend
  15. figurativelyto plant, cultivate

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

Conjugation conjugation 3 irregular

active indicative
formpresentimperfectfutureperfectpluperfectfut. perfect
1st sg.prōdūcōprōdūcēbamprōdūcamprōdūxīprōdūxeramprōdūxerō
2nd sg.prōdūcisprōdūcēbāsprōdūcēsprōdūxistīprōdūxerāsprōdūxeris
3rd sg.prōdūcitprōdūcēbatprōdūcetprōdūxitprōdūxeratprōdūxerit
1st pl.prōdūcimusprōdūcēbāmusprōdūcēmusprōdūximusprōdūxerāmusprōdūxerimus
2nd pl.prōdūcitisprōdūcēbātisprōdūcētisprōdūxistisprōdūxerātisprōdūxeritis
3rd pl.prōdūcuntprōdūcēbantprōdūcentprōdūxērunt
prōdūxēre		prōdūxerantprōdūxerint
active subjunctive
active subjunctive
formpresentimperfectperfectpluperfect
1st sg.prōdūcamprōdūceremprōdūxerimprōdūxissem
2nd sg.prōdūcāsprōdūcerēsprōdūxerīsprōdūxissēs
3rd sg.prōdūcatprōdūceretprōdūxeritprōdūxisset
1st pl.prōdūcāmusprōdūcerēmusprōdūxerīmusprōdūxissēmus
2nd pl.prōdūcātisprōdūcerētisprōdūxerītisprōdūxissētis
3rd pl.prōdūcantprōdūcerentprōdūxerintprōdūxissent
passive indicative
passive indicative
formpresentimperfectfuture
1st sg.prōdūcorprōdūcēbarprōdūcar
2nd sg.prōdūceris
prōdūcere		prōdūcēbāris
prōdūcēbāre		prōdūcēris
prōdūcēre
3rd sg.prōdūciturprōdūcēbāturprōdūcētur
1st pl.prōdūcimurprōdūcēbāmurprōdūcēmur
2nd pl.prōdūciminīprōdūcēbāminīprōdūcēminī
3rd pl.prōdūcunturprōdūcēbanturprōdūcentur
passive subjunctive
passive subjunctive
formpresentimperfect
1st sg.prōdūcarprōdūcerer
2nd sg.prōdūcāris
prōdūcāre		prōdūcerēris
prōdūcerēre
3rd sg.prōdūcāturprōdūcerētur
1st pl.prōdūcāmurprōdūcerēmur
2nd pl.prōdūcāminīprōdūcerēminī
3rd pl.prōdūcanturprōdūcerentur
imperative
imperative
formactivepassive
pres. 2nd sg.prōdūc
prōdūce		prōdūcere
pres. 2nd pl.prōdūciteprōdūciminī
fut. 2nd sg.prōdūcitōprōdūcitor
fut. 3rd sg.prōdūcitōprōdūcitor
fut. 2nd pl.prōdūcitōte—
fut. 3rd pl.prōdūcuntōprōdūcuntor
infinitives & participles
infinitives & participles
formactivepassive
present infinitiveprōdūcereprōdūcī
perfect infinitiveprōdūxisseprōductum esse
future infinitiveprōductūrum esseprōductum īrī
present participleprōdūcēns—
perfect participle—prōductus
prōducta, prōductā, prōductae, prōductam, prōductārum, prōductās, prōducte, prōductī, prōductīs, prōductō, prōductōrum, prōductōs
future participleprōductūrus
prōductūra, prōductūrā, prōductūrae, prōductūram, prōductūrārum, prōductūrās, prōductūre, prōductūrī, prōductūrīs, prōductūrō, prōductūrōrum, prōductūrōs, prōductūrum		prōdūcendus
prōdūcundus, prōdūcenda, prōdūcendā, prōdūcendae, prōdūcendam, prōdūcendārum, prōdūcendās, prōdūcende, prōdūcendīs, prōdūcendōrum, prōdūcendōs
gerundprōdūcendī, prōdūcendō, prōdūcendumsupineprōductum, prōductū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

aliquem testem producere
to produce as a witness.
in scaenam producere aliquem
to introduce a character on the stage.
exercitum educere or producere in aciem
to lead the army to the fight.
sermonem producere in multam noctem (Rep. 6. 10. 10)
to prolong a conversation far into the night.
syllabam, litteram producere (opp. corripere) (Quintil. 9. 4. 89)
to lengthen the pronunciation of a syllable or letter.

prō-dūco, xi, ctum, 3 (produxe, for produxisse, Ter Ad. 4, 2, 22), v. a.,
I. to lead or bring forth, to lead forward or out.
I. Lit. (class.): fidicinam intus, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 40: aliquem foras ante aedes, id. Capt. 2, 2, 2: aliquem e latebris, Petr. 126: castris omnem exercitum, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 62: copias pro castris, Caes. B. G. 1, 48.—Esp.
a. To bring before the people, senate, or a court: aliquem in conspectum populi Romani, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 122: quempiam in contionem, id. Pis. 6, 14: cum tribunis plebis Curionem et Octavium consules produxisset, id. Brut. 60, 217; Liv. 27, 7, 4: harum rerum omnium auctores testesque, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50, § 131: productus pro rostris, to give evidence, Suet. Jul. 20 fin.: producti in circo Flaminio in contionem, Cic. Sest. 14, 33: in judicium, to bring before a court, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 43, § 113: aliquem in Sestium, id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 1: aliquem ad necem, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 60, § 157.—
b. Of an actor, to represent, perform: nihil ab hoc (Roscio) pravum et perversum produci posse arbitrabantur, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 30. —
c. To expose for sale: ancillam produxit, vendidit, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 54: servos, id. Heaut. 1, 1, 92; Suet. Gram. 4.—
d. To draw or place one thing before another (poet.): producere malo aliquam moram, Ter. And. 3, 5, 9: scamnum lecto, Ov. A. A. 2, 211: nubila menti, Stat. S. 5, 3, 13.—
e. To draw or stretch out, to lengthen out, extend (poet. and post-Aug.): pelles dentibus, Mart. 9, 74, 1: ferrum incude, Juv. 15, 165: supercilium madidā fuligine tactum, id. 2, 94: lineas ex argento nigras, Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 98.—
f. To conduct to a place: non tu eum rus hinc modo Produxe aiebas? Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 22.—
g. To conduct to the grave, sc. a corpse or a funeral procession (poet.): nec te, tua funera, mater Produxi, Verg. A. 9, 486: longum funus ad tumulos, Luc. 2, 298.—
h. To lead or bring along, to bring away: qui et procurrentem retrahat, et cunctantem producat, to drag forward, Col. 6, 2, 9.—
i. To bring to light, disclose, expose: occulta ad patres produxit crimina servus, Juv. 8, 266. —
B. In partic.
1. To bring forth, bring into the world, to bear or beget: ego is sum qui te produxi pater, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 129: liberos, id. Capt. 3, 5, 105; Lucil. ap. Non. 373, 2: magnanimos nos natura produxit, Sen. Ep. 104, 23: quam te Thersitae similem producat Achilles, Juv. 8, 271.— Of other subjects, to produce, make (postAug.): cibis utendum est carnem producentibus, Cels. 8, 7, 7: cum folia producere incipiunt fici, Pall. 4, 10, 30.—
2. = adduco in indicium, to bring forth to trial, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 32 (Zumpt); Quint. 11, 3, 174.—
3. To make to grow, to advance, promote (poet.): subolem. Hor. C. S. 17.—
4. In pronunciation, to lengthen, prolong (class.): inclitus dicimus brevi primā litterā, insanus productā, Cic. Or. 48, 159: syllabam, Ov. P. 4, 12, 13; Quint. 1, 5, 18.—
II. Trop.
A. To bring forward (to distinction), to raise, promote, advance (class.): producere aliquem ad aliquam dignitatem. Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52: aliquem omni genere honoris, Liv. 40, 56: quem tu non pro illius dignitate produxeras, Cic. Dom. 9, 21: a quibus producti sunt, exsistunt eorum ipsorum tyranni, advanced to power, id. Rep. 1, 44, 68: beneficia, quae non producunt, nec honestiorem faciunt, Sen. Ben. 2, 9, 2.—
B. To lead, induce one to do any thing: producti sumus, ut loqueremur, Auct. Her. 1, 3, 5: productus ad aliquid faciendum, Plin. 9, 35, 59, § 122.—
C. To draw or drag out, to lengthen out, prolong, protract (class.): producere pauperi vitam ad miseriam, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 59: cenam, Hor. S. 1, 5, 70: convivium ad multam noctem vario sermone, Cic. Sen. 14, 46: sermonem in multam noctem, id. Rep. 6, 10, 10: sermonem longius, id. Brut. 71, 251: Varro .. vitam Naevii producit longius, i. e. represents him as having lived longer, id. ib. 15, 60: somnum ultra primam lucem, Suet. Aug. 78: rem in hiemem, Caes. B. G. 4, 30: animas, lives, Juv. 15, 94.—
2. To put off, to amuse, delude one with fallacious promises: aliquem falsā spe producere, Ter. And. 4, 1, 25: aliquem conditionibus, Cic. Quint. 8, 30.—
D. Of time, to pass, spend (poet.): cyathos sorbillans diem, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 52.—
E. To bring up, educate: audientem dicto, mater, produxisti filiam, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 40: principes liberos, Tac. Or. 28: laevo monitu pueros avaros, Juv. 14, 228.—
F. To make, devise, produce, bring into use: nova (vocabula) quae genitor produxerit usus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 119.—
G. To plant, cultivate: quicunque primum te produxit, arbor, Hor. C. 2, 13, 3.—Hence, prōductus, a, um, P. a., lengthened, long, prolonged, protracted, etc. (class.): productiore cornu sinistro, drawn out, extended, Tac. A. 13, 40 Halm: productissimum flagellum, Col. 3, 10: commoditates corporis tam productae temporibus, Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 29: dolores longinquitate producti, id. Tusc. 5, 40, 117: exitus (orationis), id. de Or. 2. 53, 213: productiora alia, et quasi immoderatius excurrentia, too long, id. Or. 53, 178; so, producta syllaba (opp. short), id. ib. 48, 159: nomen, formed by prolongation, id. N. D. 2, 26, 66: neve minor, neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula, longer, Hor. A. P. 189.—
B. Subst.: prōducta, ōrum, n., preferable things (a transl. of the Gr. τἁ προηγμένα): in vitā non ea, quae primario loco sunt, sed ea, quae secundum locum obtinent, προηγμένα, id est producta nominantur; quae vel ita appellemus (id erit verbum e verbo), vel promota, et remota, vel, ut dudum diximus, praeposita, vel praecipua; et illa rejecta, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52; cf. Sen. Ep. 74, 17.—Hence, adv.: prōductē, in a lengthened manner, long (class.): producte dicere litteram, opp. breviter, Cic. Or. 48, 159: producte dicere syllabam, opp. correpte, Gell. 2, 17, 5.—Comp.: syllaba productius pronunciata, Gell. 4, 17, 8.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  6. Proto-Italic*pro-
  7. Latinprōdūcō

Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō From prō- + dūcō (“lead; draw”).

Descendants
  • Catalanproduir
  • Englishproduce
  • Frenchproduire
  • Italianprodurre
  • Occitanproduire
  • Occitanprodusir
  • Portugueseproduzir
  • Romanianproduce
  • Spanishproducir
  • Germanproduzieren

In English words that came into English from prōdūcō

  • productprōductus
  • produceprōdūcō
  • productionproductio
  • productiveproductivus
  • producentproducens

Quick answers

What does prōdūcō mean in Latin?
prōdūcō, a verb, means “to lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present”.
What are the principal parts of prōdūcō?
prōdūcō, prōdūcere, prōdūxī, prōductum (third conjugation, irregular short imperative).
How do you pronounce prōdūcō?
In classical Latin, [proːˈduː.koː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [proˈduː.ko].
Where does prōdūcō come from?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? → Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? → Proto-Indo-European *pér → Proto-Indo-European *pró → Proto-Indo-European *pro- → Proto-Italic *pro- → Latin prōdūcō.
Which English words come from prōdūcō?
English words that go back to Latin prōdūcō include product, produce, producent, production and productive.