The corpus record — Latin

abductĭo

abductĭo · f

A forcible carrying off, ravishing, robbing

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What it meant

abductĭo — Lewis & Short

abductĭo, ōnis, f.abduco, I.B. 3..

I A forcible carrying off, ravishing, robbing, Cod. Th. 4, 8, 5, § 5; 11, 10, 1. —

2 (Of a woman.) Abduction: in abductione Hesionae, Dares Phryg. 4. —

II A retirement, Vulg. Eccli. 38, 20.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.