different between traduce vs decry

English

Etymology

From Latin tr?d?c? (“lead as a spectacle, dishonor”), from tr?ns + d?c? (“I lead”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???dju?s/, /t???d?u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t???dus/, /t???djus/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t???dus/

Verb

traduce (third-person singular simple present traduces, present participle traducing, simple past and past participle traduced)

1. (transitive) To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

   • This heavy-headed revel east and west
     Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
2. (archaic, transitive) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, X:

     However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].

3. (archaic, transitive) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
   • 1865, "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar, vol. XIII, Mar 1865:

     From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved Macbaeth to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of Hamlet, and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

Synonyms

• (malign or defamatory statements): defame, libel, slander
• (pass on): hand down, bequeath, leave
• (convert languages): translate
• See also Thesaurus:defame

Derived terms

• traducement
• traducer
• traducing
• traducingly
• traduction

Translations

Anagrams

• Decatur, curated, educrat

Corsican

Alternative forms

• traducia

Etymology

From Latin traducere, from Proto-Italic *tranzdouk?. Cognates include Italian tradurre and French traduire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tra?dut??e/
• Hyphenation: tra?du?ce

Verb

traduce

1. (transitive) to translate

Conjugation

References

• “traduce, traducia” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• “traduce, traducia” in Aiaccinu: Cunghjugatori corsu

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tra?dut?e/

Verb

traduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of tradurre

Anagrams

• creduta, decurta

Latin

Verb

tr?d?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tr?d?c?

Noun

tr?duce

1. ablative singular of tr?dux

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tr?d?c?, French traduire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tra?du.t?e/

Verb

a traduce (third-person singular present traduce, past participle tradus) 3rd conj.

1. to translate

Conjugation

Derived terms

• traducere

Related terms

• duce

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /t?a?du?e/, [t??a?ð?u.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /t?a?duse/, [t??a?ð?u.se]

Verb

traduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of traducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of traducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of traducir.

English

Etymology

From Old French descrier (“to shout”), from des- (“out, away, off, down”) + crier (“to cry”); see cry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

decry (third-person singular simple present decries, present participle decrying, simple past and past participle decried)

1. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 99:

     All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 474:

     While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.

2. (transitive) To blame for ills.

Translations

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 114
• decry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• decry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• decry at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cedry, cyder