Traduce
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /tɹəˈdjuËs/
- US IPA: /tɹəˈdus/, /tɹəˈdjus/
Origin
From Latin trÄdÅ«cÅ ("lead as a spectacle, dishonor"), from trÄns + dÅ«cÅ ("I lead").
Full definition of traduce
Verb
- (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
- Shakespeare Hamlet|1, scene 4This heavy-headed revel east and west
- (archaic, 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 ....
- (archaic, 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.