duco

English

Etymology

From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.

Noun

duco (uncountable)

1. (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35:

     A green four-wheel drive, its duco 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.

Verb

duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)

1. (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.

Anagrams

• cou'd, coud, docu, douc

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwkti, from the root *dewk- (“to draw, pull”). Cognate with English tow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.koː/, [ˈd̪uːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ko/, [ˈd̪uːko]

Verb

dūcō (present infinitive dūcere, perfect active dūxī, supine ductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. to lead, guide, conduct, lead away

   Synonyms: moderor, ago, deduco, produco, perfero, traduco, impingo

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.527:

     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.)

2. (by extension) to take
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64:

     In vestrās potuistī dūcere sēdēs.

     You could have taken (me) to your home.

3. to draw, pull
4. to think, consider, regard
5. to marry, to take (as one's wife)
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 679:

     Propter dīvitiās meās, licuit uxōrem dōtātam genere summō dūcere.

     By reason of my wealth, I could have married a dowered wife of the best family.

6. to prolong, to protract

   Synonym: prōdūco

7. (military, transitive) to march, command, lead (e.g., an army)
8. (passive voice with active voice meaning) to march (said of soldiers, lit. "be led")

   Diū mīlitēs dūcēbantur. ― For a long time, the soldiers were marching.

9. to forge (rare)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dūcō (third conjugation, irregular short imperative)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	dūcō	dūcis	dūcit	dūcimus	dūcitis	dūcunt
	imperfect	dūcēbam	dūcēbās	dūcēbat	dūcēbāmus	dūcēbātis	dūcēbant
	future	dūcam	dūcēs	dūcet	dūcēmus	dūcētis	dūcent
	perfect	dūxī	dūxistī	dūxit	dūximus	dūxistis	dūxērunt, dūxēre
	pluperfect	dūxeram	dūxerās	dūxerat	dūxerāmus	dūxerātis	dūxerant
	future perfect	dūxerō	dūxeris	dūxerit	dūxerimus	dūxeritis	dūxerint
passive	present	dūcor	dūceris, dūcere	dūcitur	dūcimur	dūciminī	dūcuntur
	imperfect	dūcēbar	dūcēbāris, dūcēbāre	dūcēbātur	dūcēbāmur	dūcēbāminī	dūcēbantur
	future	dūcar	dūcēris, dūcēre	dūcētur	dūcēmur	dūcēminī	dūcentur
	perfect	ductus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	ductus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	ductus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	dūcam	dūcās	dūcat	dūcāmus	dūcātis	dūcant
	imperfect	dūcerem	dūcerēs	dūceret	dūcerēmus	dūcerētis	dūcerent
	perfect	dūxerim	dūxerīs	dūxerit	dūxerīmus	dūxerītis	dūxerint
	pluperfect	dūxissem	dūxissēs	dūxisset	dūxissēmus	dūxissētis	dūxissent
passive	present	dūcar	dūcāris, dūcāre	dūcātur	dūcāmur	dūcāminī	dūcantur
	imperfect	dūcerer	dūcerēris, dūcerēre	dūcerētur	dūcerēmur	dūcerēminī	dūcerentur
	perfect	ductus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	ductus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	dūc, dūce	—	—	dūcite	—
	future	—	dūcitō	dūcitō	—	dūcitōte	dūcuntō
passive	present	—	dūcere	—	—	dūciminī	—
	future	—	dūcitor	dūcitor	—	—	dūcuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		dūcere	dūxisse	ductūrum esse	dūcī	ductum esse	ductum īrī
participles		dūcēns	—	ductūrus	—	ductus	dūcendus, dūcundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		dūcendī	dūcendō	dūcendum	dūcendō	ductum	ductū

In Classical Latin, sequor was an alternative passive of dūcō.

Derived terms

Prefixed verbs

• abdūcō
• addūcō
• circumdūcō
• condūcō
• dēdūcō
• dīdūcō
• ēdūcō
• indūcō
• intrōdūcō
• obdūcō
• perdūcō
• praedūcō
• praeterdūcō
• prōdūcō
• redūcō
• sēdūcō
• subdūcō
• subterdūcō
• superdūcō
• trādūcō

Other derivations

• aquaeductus
• dūco uxōrem
• ductiō
• ductor
• ductus
• dux

 

Descendants

• English: -duce
• Aromanian: duc, dutsiri
• Catalan: dur
• French: -duire
• German: -duzieren (borrowed)
• Italian: ducere, -durre
• Megleno-Romanian: duc, duțiri
• Occitan: dúser, duire
• Old French: duire
• Portuguese: -duzir (conduzir) (produzir) (induzir)
• Romanian: duce, ducere
• Spanish: -ducir

Further reading

• “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• duco in Gaffiot, 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 merely a se ducere
    
  • to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra 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 or petere 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