reductus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of redūcō.

Participle

reductus (feminine reducta, neuter reductum); first/second-declension participle

1. restored, reformed, reduced

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	reductus	reducta	reductum		reductī	reductae	reducta
Genitive	reductī	reductae	reductī		reductōrum	reductārum	reductōrum
Dative	reductō		reductō		reductīs
Accusative	reductum	reductam	reductum		reductōs	reductās	reducta
Ablative	reductō	reductā	reductō		reductīs
Vocative	reducte	reducta	reductum		reductī	reductae	reducta

Descendants

• Old French:
  • French: réduit
• Italian: ridotto
  • → English: ridotto
  • → French: redoute
    • → English: redoubt
    • → German: Redoute
• Italian: ridotta
• Piedmontese: ridot
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ridot
  • Ladin: redut
• → Portuguese: reduto
• → Spanish: reducto

References

• “reductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reductus 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)
• reductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.