The corpus record — Latin

reconduco

reconduco · v. a

To hire anew

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rĕ-condūco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-condūco, xi, ctum, 3, v. a.

I To hire anew, to farm or contract for again (post-Aug.): reconduxisse videbitur, Dig. 19, 2, 13, § 11: notum est ab eodem Charmide unum aegrum ex provincialibus H. S. ducentis reconductum, i. e. taken to cure, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 22.—

II To bring back: copias civitatum, Quint. Decl. 12, 18 fin.

In the wild

reconductum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.1.p7

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.