abduction
/əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/ · noun
Meaning
- A leading away; a carrying away.
- The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
- An alien abduction.
Etymology / origin
From Latin abductiō(n) (“a robbing; an abduction”), from abdūcō (“to take or lead away”), from ab (“away”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, abduct + -ion or abduce + -tion. * (physiology): From French, from Latin abductus. * Compare French abduction.
- abduction(French)→
- abductus(Latin)→
- -(fr)→
- abductiō(la)→
- *dewk-(ine-pro)→
- abduction (English)
- Relations: root, der, bor, der, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- abduktio(Finnish) (cog)
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