traduce

1530s, from Latin trādūcō (“carry over; lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from trāns + dūcō (“I lead”).[1] Sense of “malign, defame” from 1580s.[1] Compare cognate transduce, from Latin trānsdūcō.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdjuːs/, /tɹəˈdʒuːs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdus/, /tɹəˈdjus/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdus/
• Rhymes: -uːs

traduce (third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)

1. (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

   Synonyms: defame, libel, slander; see also Thesaurus:defame

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     This heauy headed reueale eaſt and weſt / Makes vs traduſt, and taxed of other nations, / They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition […]

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:

     Well I'll not debate how far Scandal may be allowable—but in a man I am sure it is always contemtable.—We have Pride, envy, Rivalship, and a Thousand motives to depreciate each other—but the male-slanderer must have the cowardice of a woman before He can traduce one.

   • 1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 2]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 203:

     I am earnestly desirous then, my dear Sir, that you should let the world into the traits of your genuine character, as civil broils may otherwise tend to disguise or traduce it.

   • 1935, W. & E. Muir, transl., The Trial, translation of Der Prozess by Franz Kafka:

     Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

2. (archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.

   Synonyms: hand down, bequeath, leave

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter X, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son […] .

3. (archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
   • 1865 Mar, “The Last of the Tercentenary”, in Temple Bar, volume XIII:

     From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

Not to be confused with transduce.

• traducement
• traducer
• traducing
• traducingly
• traduction

• transduce

• Decatur, curated, educrat

• traducia

From Latin traducere, from Proto-Italic *tranzdoukō. Cognates include Italian tradurre and French traduire.

• IPA^(key): /traˈdut͡ʃe/
• Hyphenation: tra‧du‧ce

traduce

1. (transitive) to translate

• “traduce, traducia” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• “traduce, traducia” in Aiaccinu: Cunghjugatori corsu

• IPA^(key): /traˈdu.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -utʃe
• Hyphenation: tra‧dù‧ce

traduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of tradurre

• creduta, decurta

trādūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trādūcō

trāduce

1. ablative singular of trādux

Borrowed from Latin trādūcō, French traduire.

• IPA^(key): /traˈdu.tʃe/

a traduce (third-person singular present traduce, past participle tradus) 3rd conj.

1. to translate

• traducere

• duce

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /tɾaˈduθe/ [t̪ɾaˈð̞u.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /tɾaˈduse/ [t̪ɾaˈð̞u.se]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -uθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -use
• Syllabification: tra‧du‧ce

traduce

1. inflection of traducir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative