conductus

English

Noun

conductus (plural conducti)

1. (music) A medieval song, normally with a sacred text, often sung in Latin.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.tus/, [kɔn̪ˈd̪ʊkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈduk.tus/, [kon̪ˈd̪ukt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of condūcō.

Participle

conductus (feminine conducta, neuter conductum); first/second-declension participle

1. assembled, collected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	conductus	conducta	conductum		conductī	conductae	conducta
Genitive	conductī	conductae	conductī		conductōrum	conductārum	conductōrum
Dative	conductō		conductō		conductīs
Accusative	conductum	conductam	conductum		conductōs	conductās	conducta
Ablative	conductō	conductā	conductō		conductīs
Vocative	conducte	conducta	conductum		conductī	conductae	conducta

Noun

conductus m (genitive conductī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) conductus (a genre of song)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	conductus	conductī
Genitive	conductī	conductōrum
Dative	conductō	conductīs
Accusative	conductum	conductōs
Ablative	conductō	conductīs
Vocative	conducte	conductī

Descendants

• Middle English: condut, cundut, coundute

Etymology 2

From condūcō (“lead, bring together”) +‎ -tus.

Noun

conductus m (genitive conductūs); fourth declension

1. (rare) contraction (of the body)
2. (Medieval Latin) escort, entourage
3. (Medieval Latin) guidance
4. (Medieval Latin) conduit, canal, pipe, tube

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	conductus	conductūs
Genitive	conductūs	conductuum
Dative	conductuī	conductibus
Accusative	conductum	conductūs
Ablative	conductū	conductibus
Vocative	conductus	conductūs

Descendants

• Asturian: conducta
• Catalan: conducta, conduit
• Corsican: cundutta, cundotta
• English: conduct, conductus, conduit
• French: conduit, conduite
• Friulian: condot, condote
• Galician: condoito, conduto, conduta
• Italian: condotto, condotta
• Ladin: condut
• Old Occitan: conduch
• Old Galician-Portuguese: condoito
• Portuguese: conduto, conduta
• Romanian: conductă
• Sardinian: connutu, cundhutu, cundutu, conduta, cundhuta
• Sicilian: cunnuttu, cunnutta
• Spanish: conducho, conducto, conducta
• Venetian: condoto, condota

References

• “conductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conductus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conductus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• conductus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “conductus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be hired, suborned: mercede conductum esse