adduco

adduco

1. first-person singular present indicative of addurre

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [adˈduː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [adˈduː.ko]

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

1. to lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself

   Synonyms: vehō, ferō, gerō, trahō, portō

2. to prompt, induce, cause

   Synonyms: indō, pariō, offerō, ēdō, importō, īnferō, afferō, efficiō, iniciō

   adducere in ius/iudicium ― to cite to the court, to sue

3. to persuade, move
4. (of the body) to wrinkle, contract, shrink
5. to tighten or pull tight; (also) to contract

   Synonym: stringō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 9.11:

     Cum apparitor uerecundia maiestatis Postumi laxe uinciret, "quin tu" inquit "adduces lorum, ut iusta fiat deditio?" […]

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.561–562:

     adducto contortum hastile lacerto / immittit

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   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.57:

     Ut enim balistae lapidum et reliqua tormenta telorum eo graviores emissiones habent, quo sunt contenta atque adducta vehementius, sic vox, sic cursus, sic plaga hoc gravior, quo est missa contentior.

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

• adductor
• adductus

• “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
• adduco in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “adduco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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)