Dictionary formduco, ducere, duxi, ductum
Translation
to lead, to guide; to consider, to think
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Examples
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The general led the army into the mountains.
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This road leads us to the city.
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To lead a people is not easy.
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The father was leading his son to the temple.
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I consider this a great danger.
Duco, ducere, duxi, ductum, third conjugation. The imperative is duc, not duce: it belongs to the small club of four clipped imperatives, dic, duc, fac, fer.
The second sense, "consider, reckon", is not a metaphor bolted on later but the same idea of drawing a conclusion along a line, and it takes a double accusative: hoc leve duco, "I count this a small matter". Watch the compounds, which are everywhere: adduco, induco, produco, reduco, seduco. And watch the idiom uxorem ducere, "to marry", said only of the man, because he is the one leading the bride home. English took duke, duct, conduct, educate and induce from the family.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 11: duco, versus, insula and 7 more words.