Italian

Verb

seduco

1. first-person singular present indicative of sedurre

Anagrams

• escudo

Latin

Etymology

From sē- ‎(“apart, astray”) +‎ dūcō ‎(“lead”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seːˈduː.koː/

Verb

sēdūcō ‎(present infinitive sēdūcere, perfect active sēdūxī, supine sēductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. I lead astray
   • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessions 4.1.1

     per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus

     During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I was led astray and led others astray.

2. I seduce

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References

• seduco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• seduco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “seduco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.