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redactus.

The action of driving, bringing back, reducing to a certain state

8 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The action of driving, bringing back, reducing to a certain state

    declension-4
  2. yield, income

    Late-Latin · declension-4
    Sempronio do, lego ex redactu fructuum oleris et porrinae, quae habeo in agro farrariorum, partem sextam. (Quintus Cervidius Scaevola, quoted in Digest, Liber 3 Responsorum)
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Latin red- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin redigō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin redāctus From redigō (“to drive, bring back, reduce to a certain state”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

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