ductus
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun). Doublet of duct and douit.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ductus (plural ductus or ductuses)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “ductus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ʊkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ukt̪us]
Etymology 1 edit
From dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun edit
ductus m (genitive ductūs); fourth declension
- (literally)
- (in general) leadership, leading, conducting
- Alicuius ductu imperioque ― under one’s command and authority
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.62:
- Cuius ductu saepe numero hostes superassent
- under his leadership they had so often overwhelmed the enemy
- Cuius ductu saepe numero hostes superassent
- (military) generalship, military lead, conduct, command
- (Medieval Latin) conveyance of water; a channel
- (in general) leadership, leading, conducting
- (figurative) (of discourse)
- (acting) connection or structure of a play
- a period
Inflection edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ductus | ductūs |
Genitive | ductūs | ductuum |
Dative | ductuī | ductibus |
Accusative | ductum | ductūs |
Ablative | ductū | ductibus |
Vocative | ductus | ductūs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants of ductus in other languages
Etymology 2 edit
Perfect passive participle of dūcō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ʊkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ukt̪us]
Participle edit
ductus (feminine ducta, neuter ductum); first/second-declension participle
Inflection edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | ductus | ducta | ductum | ductī | ductae | ducta | |
Genitive | ductī | ductae | ductī | ductōrum | ductārum | ductōrum | |
Dative | ductō | ductō | ductīs | ||||
Accusative | ductum | ductam | ductum | ductōs | ductās | ducta | |
Ablative | ductō | ductā | ductō | ductīs | |||
Vocative | ducte | ducta | ductum | ductī | ductae | ducta |
Descendants edit
Descendants of ductus in other languages
References edit
- “ductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ductus 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)
- ductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a conduit; an aqueduct: aquae ductus (plur. aquarum ductus)
- the conversation began in this way: hinc sermo ductus est
- (ambiguous) a thing is taken from life: aliquid e vita ductum est
- (ambiguous) to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare
- a conduit; an aqueduct: aquae ductus (plur. aquarum ductus)
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