detraho

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ trahō (“to drag”).

Pronunciation

Verb

dētrahō (present infinitive dētrahere, perfect active dētrāxī, supine dētractum); third conjugation

  1. to draw, pull, take or drag off, down or away; remove, detach, withdraw
  2. to take away, deprive, diminish, strip, rob
  3. to pull down, drag down, lower
  4. to withhold, divert
  5. (transferred) to withdraw, take away, remove; lower in estimation, disparage, detract from
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.14:
      Nē illud quidem vidētis, quam omnem invidiam maiōrēs nostrī dominīs, omnem contumēliam servīs dētrāxerint?
      Do you not even see this, how our ancestors disparaged all resentment from masters and all abuse [of their] slaves?
      (A verb in the third person plural, perfect active subjunctive, used in the indirect question.)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dētrahō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present dētrahō dētrahis dētrahit dētrahimus dētrahitis dētrahunt
imperfect dētrahēbam dētrahēbās dētrahēbat dētrahēbāmus dētrahēbātis dētrahēbant
future dētraham dētrahēs dētrahet dētrahēmus dētrahētis dētrahent
perfect dētrāxī dētrāxistī dētrāxit dētrāximus dētrāxistis dētrāxērunt,
dētrāxēre
pluperfect dētrāxeram dētrāxerās dētrāxerat dētrāxerāmus dētrāxerātis dētrāxerant
future perfect dētrāxerō dētrāxeris dētrāxerit dētrāxerimus dētrāxeritis dētrāxerint
passive present dētrahor dētraheris,
dētrahere 		dētrahitur dētrahimur dētrahiminī dētrahuntur
imperfect dētrahēbar dētrahēbāris,
dētrahēbāre 		dētrahēbātur dētrahēbāmur dētrahēbāminī dētrahēbantur
future dētrahar dētrahēris,
dētrahēre 		dētrahētur dētrahēmur dētrahēminī dētrahentur
perfect dētractus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect dētractus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect dētractus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present dētraham dētrahās dētrahat dētrahāmus dētrahātis dētrahant
imperfect dētraherem dētraherēs dētraheret dētraherēmus dētraherētis dētraherent
perfect dētrāxerim dētrāxerīs dētrāxerit dētrāxerīmus dētrāxerītis dētrāxerint
pluperfect dētrāxissem dētrāxissēs dētrāxisset dētrāxissēmus dētrāxissētis dētrāxissent
passive present dētrahar dētrahāris,
dētrahāre 		dētrahātur dētrahāmur dētrahāminī dētrahantur
imperfect dētraherer dētraherēris,
dētraherēre 		dētraherētur dētraherēmur dētraherēminī dētraherentur
perfect dētractus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect dētractus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — dētrahe — — dētrahite —
future — dētrahitō dētrahitō — dētrahitōte dētrahuntō
passive present — dētrahere — — dētrahiminī —
future — dētrahitor dētrahitor — — dētrahuntor
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present dētrahere dētrahī dētrahēns —
future dētractūrum esse dētractum īrī dētractūrus dētrahendus,
dētrahundus
perfect dētrāxisse dētractum esse — dētractus
future perfect — dētractum fore — —
perfect potential dētractūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
dētrahendī dētrahendō dētrahendum dētrahendō dētractum dētractū

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: detreure, detractar
  • English: detract
  • French: détracter
  • Galician: detraer
  • Italian: detrarre
  • Portuguese: detrair
  • Sicilian: ditràjiri
  • Spanish: detraer

References

  • “detraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “detraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “detraho”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to detract from a person's reputation, wilfully underestimate a person: de gloria, fama alicuius detrahere
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