conductus

conductus (plural conducti)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈdʊk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪ˈd̪uk.t̪us]

Perfect passive participle of condūcō.

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

1. assembled, collected

First/second-declension adjective.

conductus m (genitive conductī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

• Middle English: condut, cundut, coundute

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

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

Fourth-declension noun.

• “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