abductio

== Latin == === Etymology === From abdūcō (“take away; withdraw; seduce”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [abˈdʊk.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈduk.t͡si.o] === 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (retirement): dēcessiō, dēcessus (robbing): spoliātiō ==== Related terms ==== abdūcēns abdūcō abductor abductus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “abductio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "abductio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.