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Webster 1913 Edition

Traduce

Tra-duce′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Traduced
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Traducing
.]
[L.
traducere
,
traductum
, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive;
trans
across, over +
ducere
to lead: cf. F.
traduire
to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L.
traducere.
See
Duke
.]
1.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down;
as, to
traduce
mental qualities to one’s descendants
.
[Obs.]
Glanvill.
2.
To translate from one language to another;
as, to
traduce
and compose works
.
[Obs.]
Golden Boke.
3.
To increase or distribute by propagation.
[Obs.]
From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and
traduced
over the earth.
Sir M. Hale.
4.
To draw away; to seduce.
[Obs.]
I can forget the weakness
Of the
traduced
soldiers.
Beau. & Fl.
5.
To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
6.
To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by
traducing
the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt.
Hooker.
He had the baseness . . . to
traduce
me in libel.
Dryden.
Syn. – To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.

Webster 1828 Edition

Traduce

TRADU'CE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. traduco; trans, over,and duco, to lead.]
1.
To represent as blamable; to condemn.
The best stratagem that Satan hath, is by traducing the form and manner of the devout prayers of God's church.
2.
To calumniate; to vilify; to defame; willfully to misrepresent.
As long as men are malicious and designing, they will be traducing.
He had the baseness to traduce me in libel.
3.
To propagate; to continue by deriving one from another.
From these only the race of perfect animals was propagated and traduced over the earth. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

traduce

traduce

English

Verb

traduce ‎(third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)

  1. (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, X:
      However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].
  3. (archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
    • 1865, "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar, vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
      From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /traˈdutʃe/

Verb

traduce

  1. third-person singular present indicative of tradurre

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Latin

Verb

trādūce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of trādūcō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin trādūcō, French traduire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /traˈdu.tʃe/

Verb

a traduce ‎(third-person singular present traduce, past participle tradus) 3rd conj.

  1. to translate

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɾaˈðuθe]

Verb

traduce

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of traducir.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of traducir.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of traducir.

Etymology

From Latin trādūcō ‎(“lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō ‎(“I lead”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɹəˈdjuːs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tɹəˈdus/, /tɹəˈdjus/

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