deductus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēdūcō.

Participle

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

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dēductus	dēducta	dēductum		dēductī	dēductae	dēducta
genitive	dēductī	dēductae	dēductī		dēductōrum	dēductārum	dēductōrum
dative	dēductō	dēductae	dēductō		dēductīs
accusative	dēductum	dēductam	dēductum		dēductōs	dēductās	dēducta
ablative	dēductō	dēductā	dēductō		dēductīs
vocative	dēducte	dēducta	dēductum		dēductī	dēductae	dēducta

Descendants

• English: deduct

References

• “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...