ducere

Borrowed from Latin dūcere. The inherited form survived in the suffix -durre. See also dotto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.t͡ʃe.re/
• Rhymes: -utʃere
• Hyphenation: dù‧ce‧re

dùcere (first-person singular present dùco, first-person singular past historic dùssi, past participle dótto, first-person singular future durrò, auxiliary avére) (transitive, obsolete, rare)

1. to lead, guide, drive

   Synonyms: condurre, guidare

2. (figurative) to mold, temper

   Synonyms: modellare, plasmare

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso [The Divine Comedy: Paradise] (paperback), Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIII, page 234, lines 67–69:

     La cera di costoro e chi la duce ¶ non sta d'un modo; e però sotto 'l segno ¶ idëale poi più e men traluce.

     Neither their wax, nor that which tempers it, ¶ remains immutable, and hence beneath ¶ the ideal signet more and less shines through.

• duce
• -durre
• dotto

• cudere, reduce

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ke.re/, [ˈd̪uːkɛrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.t͡ʃe.re/, [ˈd̪uːt͡ʃere]

dūcere

1. present active infinitive of dūcō (“to lead, to guide”)
2. second-person singular present passive imperative of dūcō (“be thou led, be thou guided”)

From duce +‎ -re.

ducere f (plural duceri)

1. going
2. leaving, departure

   Synonym: plecare