reduco

reduco

1. first-person singular present indicative of redurre

From Proto-Italic *wredoukō. Equivalent to re- (“back, again”) +‎ dūcō (“lead”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈduː.koː/, [rɛˈd̪uːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈdu.ko/, [reˈd̪uːko]

redūcō (present infinitive redūcere, perfect active redūxī, supine reductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. to lead, draw, bring or conduct back; bring or accompany home
2. (military, of troops) to withdraw, cause to retreat, draw back, remove
   • Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 24:

     Ut [...] alii turres reducerent

     That [...] others should draw back the towers

3. (figuratively) to bring back, restore, recall, revive, replace; reform
4. (figuratively) to bring, produce or get out a quantity of
5. (figuratively) to bring, make or reduce to a certain condition or quality
6. to recall to the mind, remember, remind

   Synonyms: memorō, referō, moneō, retineō, meminī, admoneō

   Antonyms: oblīvīscor, oblitterō

7. (Medieval Latin) to quell, to subdue, to subjugate [10th C.]

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• (I subjugate): subiugō (Classical)

• “reduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reduco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reduco in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• reduco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere
    
  • to recall a thing to a person's mind: in memoriam alicuius redigere, reducere aliquid (not revocare)
    
  • to bring a person back to the right way: in viam reducere aliquem
    
  • to reduce a people to their former obedience: aliquem ad officium (cf. sect. X. 7, note officium...) reducere (Nep. Dat. 2. 3)
    
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), 898/1, “reducere”