réduire

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French reduire, from Old French reduire, an alteration or Gallicization of Latin redūcere (“reduce”), after conduire. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʁe.dɥiʁ/ === Verb === réduire (transitive) to reduce (transitive) to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures, etc.) (transitive) to reduce (someone) [with à ‘to’] (transitive) to reduce (something) [with en ‘to’] (transitive, medicine) to reduce, set (transitive, chemistry, cooking) to reduce (transitive, military) to capture (a place), to quell (opposition etc.) (pronominal) to amount to, to come down to [with à ‘to’] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “réduire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012