duct

The story

1. Medieval Latin · borrowed fromductus“a conveyance of water; a channel”
2. Latin · borrowed fromductus“leading, conducting”
3. English todayduct

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

Words from the same roots