abductio
Latin
Etymology
From abdūcō (“take away; withdraw; seduce”), from ab (“from, away from”) + dūcō (“lead”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈduk.ti.oː/, [äbˈd̪ʊkt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈduk.t͡si.o/, [äbˈd̪ukt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
abductiō f (genitive abductiōnis); third declension
- robbing, ravishing, plundering
- (by extension, of a woman) abduction
- (Vulgar Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) retirement
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | abductiō | abductiōnēs |
| Genitive | abductiōnis | abductiōnum |
| Dative | abductiōnī | abductiōnibus |
| Accusative | abductiōnem | abductiōnēs |
| Ablative | abductiōne | abductiōnibus |
| Vocative | abductiō | abductiōnēs |
Synonyms
- (retirement): dēcessiō, dēcessus
- (robbing): spoliātiō
Related terms
- abdūcēns
- abducō
- abductor
- abductus
Descendants
- Catalan: abducció
- English: abduction
- French: abduction
- Italian: abduzione
- Norwegian Bokmål: abduksjon
- Portuguese: abdução
- Russian: абдукция (abdukcija)
- Sicilian: adduzziuni
- Spanish: abducción
References
- “abductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abductio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abductio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette