traductio

Latin

Etymology

Literally, “leading across”, from trādūcō (“lead across”) +‎ -tiō, from trāns (“across”) + dūcō (“lead”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /traːˈduk.ti.oː/, [t̪räːˈd̪ʊkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /traˈduk.t͡si.o/, [t̪räˈd̪ukt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

trāductiō f (genitive trāductiōnis); third declension

1. transferring
2. (rhetoric) metonymy
3. (rhetoric) repetition of the same word
4. translation
5. temporis, passage of time, lapse of time

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trāductiō	trāductiōnēs
genitive	trāductiōnis	trāductiōnum
dative	trāductiōnī	trāductiōnibus
accusative	trāductiōnem	trāductiōnēs
ablative	trāductiōne	trāductiōnibus
vocative	trāductiō	trāductiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: traducción
• Catalan: traducció
• → English: traduction
• French: traduction
• Galician: tradución
• Italian: traduzione
• Piedmontese: tradussion, tradüssiun
• Portuguese: tradução
• Romanian: traducție
• Spanish: traducción

References

• “traductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “traductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• traductio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to transfer oneself from the patrician to the plebeian order: traductio ad plebem
    
• traductio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016