English
transduce
Transduce comes from Latin trānsdūcō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsdūcō
- Englishearliest quotation 1991transduce
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsdūcō
- Englishearliest quotation 1991transduce
Earliest quotation: 1991, Maxine Singer, Paul Berg: “After the transducing phage DNA is introduced into the…”
A compound of trans ‘across’ + dūcō ‘lead, guide’
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘through, throughout, over’
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂-n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trans ‘across’
Proto-Indo-European *dewk- ‘to draw, pull’
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti ‘to pull, to draw’
Proto-Italic *doukō ‘to lead’
Latin dūcō ‘lead, guide’
Every English word from Latin trānsdūcō
Today it means
verb To convert energy from one form to another.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trānsdūcō / transduce