a traduceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /tɹəˈdjuːs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tɹəˈdus/, /tɹəˈdjus/

動詞

to traduce (三人称単数 現在形 traduces, 現在分詞 traducing, 過去形および過去分詞形 traduced)

1. (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 1, scene 4

     This heavy-headed revel east and west
     Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:

2. (obsolete, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, X:

     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. (obsolete, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
   • 1865, "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar, vol. XIII, Mar 1865:

     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.

同意語

• (pass on): hand down, bequeath, leave
• (malign with defamatory statements): defame, libel, slander
• See also Wikisaurus:defame

派生語

• traducement
• traducer
• traducingly

アナグラム

• curated, Decatur, educrat

Latin

動詞

trādūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trādūcō.