Italian

Verb

adduco

1. first-person singular present indicative of addurre

Latin

Etymology

From ad- ‎(“to, towards, near”) +‎ dūcō ‎(“lead”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /adˈduː.koː/

Verb

addūcō ‎(present infinitive addūcere, perfect active addūxī, supine adductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. I lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself
2. I prompt, induce, persuade, move
3. (of the body) I wrinkle, contract, shrink

Inflection

• Adduxistī is sometimes written as adduxtī, and adduxisse as adduxe.

Derived terms

• adductor
• adductus

Descendants

References

• adduco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• adduco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adduco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to tighten the reins: habenas adducere
    
  • to place some one in an embarrassing position: in angustias adducere aliquem
    
  • to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: ad finem aliquid adducere
    
  • to be induced by a consideration: adduci aliqua re (ad aliquid or ut...)
    
  • to endanger, imperil a person or thing: aliquem, aliquid in periculum (discrimen) adducere, vocare
    
  • to induce a person to think that..: aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut
    
  • to win a man over to one's own way of thinking: aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere
    
  • I cannot make myself believe that..: non possum adduci, ut (credam)
    
  • to make a person forget a thing: aliquem in oblivionem alicuius rei adducere (pass. in oblivionem venire)
    
  • to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: in oblivionem adduci
    
  • to make a thing the subject of controversy: in controversiam vocare, adducere aliquid
    
  • to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
    
  • to be plunged into the depths of despair: ad (summam) desperationem pervenire, adduci (B. C. 2. 42)
    
  • to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
    
  • to inspire some one with the most brilliant hopes: in maximam spem aliquem adducere (Att. 2. 22. 3)
    
  • to rouse a person's expectation, curiosity to the highest pitch: aliquem in summam exspectationem adducere (Tusc. 1. 17. 39)
    
  • to arouse feelings of compassion in some one: ad misericordiam aliquem allicere, adducere, inducere
    
  • to make a person suspected: aliquem in suspicionem adducere (alicui), aliquem suspectum reddere
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: in invidiam adducere aliquem
    
  • to bring some one back to his senses: ad sanitatem adducere, revocare aliquem
    
  • to be reduced to extreme financial embarrassment: in maximas angustias (pecuniae) adduci
    
  • an interregnum ensues: res ad interregnum venit or adducitur
    
  • to advance on..: exercitum admovere, adducere ad...
    
  • to completely annihilate a nation: gentem ad internecionem redigere or adducere (B. G. 2. 28)