adjectivethird-declension one-termination adjective
redux
redux (genitive reducis)
Classical[ˈrɛ.dʊks]Ecclesiastical[ˈrɛː.duks]
Meaning
- activeone terminationthat leads or brings back, that returns
- one terminationthat is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned, that has returned
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | redux | redux | redux |
| genitive | reducis redducis | reducis redducis | reducis redducis |
| dative | reducī redducī | reducī redducī | reducī redducī |
| accusative | reducem redducem | reducem redducem | redux |
| ablative | reducī reduce, redduce, redducī | reducī reduce, redduce, redducī | reducī reduce, redduce, redducī |
| vocative | redux | redux | redux |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | reducēs redducēs | reducēs redducēs | reducia redducia |
| genitive | reducium redducium | reducium redducium | reducium redducium |
| dative | reducibus redducibus | reducibus redducibus | reducibus redducibus |
| accusative | reducīs reducēs, redducēs, redducīs | reducīs reducēs, redducēs, redducīs | reducia redducia |
| ablative | reducibus redducibus | reducibus redducibus | reducibus redducibus |
| vocative | reducēs redducēs | reducēs redducēs | reducia redducia |
rĕdux (rēdux, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 4; id. Capt. 5, 1, 2), dŭcis (abl. reduce, Liv. 21, 50:
I. Act., that leads or brings back (mostly as an epithet of Jupiter and of Fortuna, in the poets and in inscrr.):
et sua det reduci vir meus arma Jovi, Ov. H. 13, 50; Sabin. Ep. 1, 78; Inscr. Orell. 1256: hic ubi Fortunae reducis fulgentia late Templa nitent, Mart. 8, 65, 1; Inscr. Orell. 332; 922; 1760 sq.; 1776; 3096; 4083: reduces choreae, i. e. that accompany home, Mart. 10, 70, 9.— Of a human being only in the foll. passage: eo pervenimus, unde, nisi te reduce, nulli ad penates suos iter est, Curt. 9, 6, 9.— II. Pass., that is led or brought back (from slavery, imprisonment, from a distance, etc.), come back, returned (freq. and class.):
facere aliquem reducem, to bring back, Plaut. Capt. prol. 43; cf. id. ib. 2, 3, 77; 3, 5, 28; 5, 1, 2; 11; id. Trin. 4, 1, 4; Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 18: ab Orco in lucem, id. Hec. 5, 4, 12: quid me reducem esse voluistis? (i. e. from exile), Cic. Mil. 37, 103: victores triumphantes domos reduces sistatis, Liv. 29, 27; cf.: reduces in patriam ad parentes ad conjuges ac liberos facere, id. 22, 60, 13: navi reduce, id. 21, 50: caesar exercitusque, Tac. A. 1, 70 fin.: reduces socios, Verg. A. 1, 390; 11, 797: gratari aliquem reducem, id. ib. 5, 40 et saep.: (elephanti) non ante reduces ad agmen, Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13: carina, Ov. H. 6, 1: reduces habenas, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 242; of the phœnix after being burned: reducisque parans exordia formae, id. Idyll. 1, 41.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
redux ducis (abl. reduce; poet. also reducī, O.), adj.
re-+DVC-, that brings back, guiding back : Iuppiter, O.: unde, nisi te reduce, nulli ad penatīs suos iter est, Cu.— Led back, brought back, come back, returned : tu reducem me in patriam facis, you restore me , T.: quid me reducem esse voluistis? i. e. from exile : reduces in patriam ad parentes facere, L.: navi reduce, L.: Gratatur reduces, V.
Origins
From redūcō (“to lead or bring back”) + -s.
Descendants
- Englishredux
- Italianreduce
In English words that came into English from redux
- reduxredux