Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of deduco.

Participle edit

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 edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dēductus dēducta dēductum dēductī dēductae dēducta
Genitive dēductī dēductae dēductī dēductōrum dēductārum dēductōrum
Dative dēductō dēductō dēductīs
Accusative dēductum dēductam dēductum dēductōs dēductās dēducta
Ablative dēductō dēductā dēductō dēductīs
Vocative dēducte dēducta dēductum dēductī dēductae dēducta

Descendants edit

  • English: deduct

References edit

  • 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’s 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[1], 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...