dedux
Latin
Etymology
Apparently dēdūcō + -s; compare redux.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdeː.dʊks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd̪ɛː.d̪uks]
Adjective
dēdux (genitive dēducis); third-declension one-termination adjective (Late Latin, hapax legomenon)
- derived, descended
- Symmachus, Letters 8.69:
- nisi forte Gallia tua dedux Heliconis
- unless perchance your Gaul (is) descended/derived from Helicon
- nisi forte Gallia tua dedux Heliconis
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | dēdux | dēducēs | dēducia | ||
| genitive | dēducis | dēducium | |||
| dative | dēducī | dēducibus | |||
| accusative | dēducem | dēdux | dēducēs | dēducia | |
| ablative | dēducī | dēducibus | |||
| vocative | dēdux | dēducēs | dēducia | ||
References
- “dedux” in volume 5, part 1, column 284, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- “dedux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dedux”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.