duco

From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.

duco (uncountable)

1. (Australia, automotive, colloquial) Automotive paint.
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35:

     A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.

duco (third-person singular simple present ducos, present participle ducoing, simple past and past participle ducoed)

1. (Australia, automotive, colloquial, transitive) To paint with automotive paint.

• cou'd, coud, docu, douc

From Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwkti, from the root *dewk-. Cognate with English tow.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.koː/, [ˈd̪uːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ko/, [ˈd̪uːko]

dūcō (present infinitive dūcere, perfect active dūxī, supine ductum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. to lead, guide, conduct, lead away

   Synonyms: moderor, ago, deduco, produco, perfero, traduco, impingo

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.527:

     cui dea ‘dūc!’ inquit ‘scīstī, quā cōgere possēs’

     To which the goddess replies: ‘‘Lead on! You have understood how you are able to compel me.’’
     (A humble farmer named Celeus and his young daughter have spoken kindly to an old woman, and have invited her to visit their cottage, unaware that their guest is the goddess Ceres in disguise.)

2. (by extension) to take
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64:

     In vestrās potuistī dūcere sēdēs.

     You could have taken (me) to your home.

3. to draw, pull
4. to think, consider, regard
5. to marry, to take (as one's wife)
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 679:

     Propter dīvitiās meās, licuit uxōrem dōtātam genere summō dūcere.

     By reason of my wealth, I could have married a dowered wife of the best family.

6. to prolong, to protract

   Synonym: prōdūco

7. (military, transitive) to march, command, lead (e.g., an army)
8. (passive voice with active voice meaning) to march (said of soldiers, lit. "be led")

   Diū mīlitēs dūcēbantur. ― For a long time, the soldiers were marching.

9. to forge (rare)

In Classical Latin, sequor was an alternative passive of dūcō.

• “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “duco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• duco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
    
  • a road leads somewhere: via fert, ducit aliquo
    
  • to spend time: tempus ducere
    
  • to lead some one by the hand: manu ducere aliquem
    
  • to trace one's descent from some one: originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere
    
  • to breathe, live: animam, spiritum ducere
    
  • to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere
    
  • to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
    
  • to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
    
  • to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
    
  • to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari
    
  • to consider a thing creditable to a man: aliquid laudi alicui ducere, dare
    
  • to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre
    
  • to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
    
  • to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re
    
  • to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
    
  • to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem
    
  • to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
    
  • to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere
    
  • to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere
    
  • to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere
    
  • to lead some one in triumph: per triumphum (in triumpho) aliquem ducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be guided by ambition: gloria duci
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing is taken from life: aliquid e vita ductum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare
    
  • (ambiguous) to cherish a hope: spe duci, niti, teneri
    
  • (ambiguous) to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci