detraho
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + trahō (“I drag”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.tra.hoː/, [ˈd̪eːt̪rä(ɦ)oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.tra.o/, [ˈd̪ɛːt̪räo]
Verb
dētrahō (present infinitive dētrahere, perfect active dētrāxī, supine dētractum); third conjugation
- I draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw.
- I take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob.
- I pull down, drag down, lower.
- I withhold, divert.
- I withdraw, take away; lower in estimation, disparage, detract from.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of dētrahō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dētrahō | dētrahis | dētrahit | dētrahimus | dētrahitis | dētrahunt |
| imperfect | dētrahēbam | dētrahēbās | dētrahēbat | dētrahēbāmus | dētrahēbātis | dētrahēbant | |
| future | dētraham | dētrahēs | dētrahet | dētrahēmus | dētrahētis | dētrahent | |
| perfect | dētrāxī | dētrāxistī | dētrāxit | dētrāximus | dētrāxistis | dētrāxērunt, dētrāxēre | |
| pluperfect | dētrāxeram | dētrāxerās | dētrāxerat | dētrāxerāmus | dētrāxerātis | dētrāxerant | |
| future perfect | dētrāxerō | dētrāxeris | dētrāxerit | dētrāxerimus | dētrāxeritis | dētrāxerint | |
| passive | present | dētrahor | dētraheris, dētrahere | dētrahitur | dētrahimur | dētrahiminī | dētrahuntur |
| imperfect | dētrahēbar | dētrahēbāris, dētrahēbāre | dētrahēbātur | dētrahēbāmur | dētrahēbāminī | dētrahēbantur | |
| future | dētrahar | dētrahēris, dētrahēre | dētrahētur | dētrahēmur | dētrahēminī | dētrahentur | |
| perfect | dētractus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dētractus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | dētractus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | dētraham | dētrahās | dētrahat | dētrahāmus | dētrahātis | dētrahant |
| imperfect | dētraherem | dētraherēs | dētraheret | dētraherēmus | dētraherētis | dētraherent | |
| perfect | dētrāxerim | dētrāxerīs | dētrāxerit | dētrāxerīmus | dētrāxerītis | dētrāxerint | |
| pluperfect | dētrāxissem | dētrāxissēs | dētrāxisset | dētrāxissēmus | dētrāxissētis | dētrāxissent | |
| passive | present | dētrahar | dētrahāris, dētrahāre | dētrahātur | dētrahāmur | dētrahāminī | dētrahantur |
| imperfect | dētraherer | dētraherēris, dētraherēre | dētraherētur | dētraherēmur | dētraherēminī | dētraherentur | |
| perfect | dētractus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | dētractus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | dētrahe | — | — | dētrahite | — |
| future | — | dētrahitō | dētrahitō | — | dētrahitōte | dētrahuntō | |
| passive | present | — | dētrahere | — | — | dētrahiminī | — |
| future | — | dētrahitor | dētrahitor | — | — | dētrahuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | dētrahere | dētrāxisse | dētractūrum esse | dētrahī | dētractum esse | dētractum īrī | |
| participles | dētrahēns | — | dētractūrus | — | dētractus | dētrahendus, dētrahundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| dētrahendī | dētrahendō | dētrahendum | dētrahendō | dētractum | dētractū | ||
Derived terms
- dētrāctō
- dētrāctiō
- dētrāctor
- dētrāctus
Related terms
- abstrahō
- attrahō
- circumtrahō
- contrahō
- distrahō
- extrahō
- intertrahō
- intrahō
- obtrahō
- pertrahō
- prōtrahō
- retrahō
- subtrahō
- supertrahō
- trahō
Descendants
- Catalan: detreure, detractar
- English: detract
- French: détracter, détracteur, détractrice
- Italian: detrarre
- Portuguese: detrair
- Sicilian: ditràjiri
- Spanish: detraer
References
- “detraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “detraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- detraho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
- to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere