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S vs Traduce - What's the difference?

s | traduce |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb traduce is

to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    traduce

    English

    Verb

    (traduc)
  • To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
  • * , scene 4
  • This heavy-headed revel east and west
    Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
  • (archaic) 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 [...].
  • (archaic) 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

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

    Derived terms

    * traducement * traducer * traducingly * traduction

    Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs ----