Etymology

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Today it means: The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the." Full definition →

Middle English conduen ← Anglo-Norman conduire ← Latin condūcō
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  1. Latin · derived fromcondūcō“lead, bring or draw together”
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromconduire
  3. Middle English · inherited fromconduen
  4. English todayconn

Variant of cond, from Middle English conduen, condien, from Anglo-Norman conduire, from Latin condūcō (“lead, bring or draw together”), from con- (“with, together”) + dūcō (“lead”). Doublet of conduce.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.