ductus
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun). Doublet of duct and douit.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editductus (plural ductus or ductuses)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “ductus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ʊkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ukt̪us]
Etymology 1
editFrom dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
editductus 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
editFourth-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
editDescendants
editDescendants
Etymology 2
editPerfect passive participle of dūcō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ʊkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈduk.tus/, [ˈd̪ukt̪us]
Participle
editductus (feminine ducta, neuter ductum); first/second-declension participle
Inflection
editFirst/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
editDescendants
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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