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deductus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēdūcō.

Participle

dēductus (feminine dēducta, neuter dēductum, comparative dēductior, adverb dēductim); first/second-declension participle

  1. having been led or escorted away
  2. (needed: other examples drawn from the meanings of deduco)
  3. having been well-wrought; having been made slender, subtle, fine, attenuated
  4. (literal, as in spinning wool, or figurative) having been spun or drawn out
    • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.39:
      carmina prōveniunt animō dēducta serēnō
      Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease
      Well-spun verses come forth from a serene mind

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • English: deduct

References

  • deductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • deductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "deductus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • deductus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the matter has gone so far that...; the state of affairs is such that..: res eo or in eum locum deducta est, ut...
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