From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.
duco (uncountable)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial)Automotivepaint.
2002,Alex Miller,Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published2003, page35:A green four-wheel drive, itsduco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.
duco (third-person singular simple presentducos,present participleducoing,simple past and past participleducoed)
- (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.
FromProto-Italic*doukō, fromProto-Indo-European*déwkti, from the root*dewk-(“to draw, pull”). Cognate withEnglishtow.[1]
dūcō (present infinitivedūcere,perfect activedūxī,supineductum);third conjugation,irregular shortimperative
- tolead,guide,conduct,leadaway
- Synonyms:moderor,ago,deduco,produco,perfero,traduco,impingo
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti4.527:
- cui dea‘dūc!’ inquit ‘scīstī, quā cōgere possēs’
- To which the goddess replies: ‘‘Lead on! You have understood how you are able to compel me.’’
(A humble farmer named Celeus and his young daughter have spoken kindly to an old woman, and have invited her to visit their cottage, unaware that their guest is the goddess Ceres in disguise.)
- (by extension) totake
c. 84BCE – 54BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina64:
- In vestrās potuistīdūcere sēdēs.
- You could havetaken (me) to your home.
- todraw,pull
- tothink,consider,regard
- tomarry, totake(as one's wife)
c. 206BCE,
Plautus,
Miles Gloriosus679:
- Propter dīvitiās meās, licuit uxōrem dōtātam genere summōdūcere.
- By reason of my wealth, I could havemarried a dowered wife of the best family.
- toprolong, toprotract
- Synonym:prōdūco
- (military, transitive) tomarch,command,lead(e.g., an army)
- (passive voice with active voice meaning) tomarch(said of soldiers, lit. "be led")
- Diūmīlitēsdūcēbantur. ―For a long time, the soldierswere marching.
- toforge(rare)
In Classical Latin,sequor was an alternative passive of dūcō.
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dūcō, -ere”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page181
- “duco”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “duco”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- duco inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to bring a stream of water through the garden:aquam ducere per hortum
- a road leads somewhere:via fert, ducit aliquo
- to spend time:tempus ducere
- to lead some one by the hand:manu ducere aliquem
- to trace one's descent from some one:originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere
- to breathe, live:animam, spiritum ducere
- to breathe the air:aera spiritu ducere
- to carry out the funeral obsequies:funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
- to commence a thing:initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity:aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merelya se ducere
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity:aliquid infra se ducere orinfra se positum arbitrari
- to consider a thing creditable to a man:aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dare
- to put off from one day to another:diem ex die ducere, differre
- to devote one's life to science, study:aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
- to derive an argument from a thing:argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re orpetere ab aliqua re
- to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word):vocabulum,verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
- to marry (of the man):ducere uxorem
- to marry (of the man):ducere aliquam in matrimonium
- to protract, prolong a war:bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere
- to lead the army with forced marches:raptim agmen ducere
- to make a ditch, a fosse:fossam ducere
- to lead some one in triumph:per triumphum (in triumpho) aliquem ducere
- (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition:gloria duci
- (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
- (ambiguous) to cherish a hope:spe duci, niti, teneri
- (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope:inani, falsa spe duci, induci
