reduco

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofredurre

FromProto-Italic*wredoukō. Equivalent tore-(“back, again”) +‎dūcō(“lead”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/reˈduː.koː/,[rɛˈd̪uːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/reˈdu.ko/,[reˈd̪uːko]

redūcō (present infinitiveredūcere,perfect activeredūxī,supinereductum);third conjugation,irregular shortimperative

1. tolead,draw,bring orconduct back; bring oraccompany home
2. (military, of troops) towithdraw, cause toretreat, draw back,remove
   • c. 52BCE,Julius Caesar,Commentarii de Bello GallicoVII.24:

     Ut [...] alii turresreducerent

     That [...] others shoulddraw back the towers

3. (figuratively) tobring back,restore,recall,revive,rescue,replace;reform
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.375:

     “Āmissam classem, sociōs ā morteredūxī.”

     “[His] lost fleet, [his] crews,I brought back from death.”

4. (figuratively) to bring,produce orget out a quantity of
5. (figuratively) to bring,make orreduce to a certain condition or quality
6. torecall to themind,remember,remind

   Synonyms:memorō,referō,moneō,retineō,meminī,admoneō

   Antonyms:oblīvīscor,oblitterō

7. (Medieval Latin) toquell, tosubdue, tosubjugate[10th C.]

• (I subjugate):subiugō(Classical)

• “reduco”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reduco”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reduco inEnrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025),Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• reduco inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to reconcile two people; to be a mediator:in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere
    
  • to recall a thing to a person's mind:in memoriam alicuius redigere, reducere aliquid (notrevocare)
    
  • to bring a person back to the right way:in viam reducere aliquem
    
  • to reduce a people to their former obedience:aliquem ad officium (cf. sect. X. 7, noteofficium...)reducere (Nep. Dat. 2. 3)
    
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer,Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976),898/1, “reducere”