Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged defines “traduce” as follows:
Main Entry: tra·duce Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s Etymology: Latin traducere to lead across, transfer, degrade, from tra-, trans- trans- + ducere to lead -- more at TOW
1 aobsolete: to turn from one language or form into another b: to debase or pervert by translating 2 a: to lower or disgrace the reputation of : expose to shame or blame by utterance of falsehood or misrepresentation <feels that his country is being traduced and its war effort sneered at -- Richard Watts> b: to make mock of : VIOLATE, BETRAY <is traducing our American principle of law that a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty -- Agnes Meyer> synonym see MALIGN
I mean just what it says, and used to say, as against the original: traditore traduttore.
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