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Reduce

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to make something smaller in size, amount, or degree
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Stage 1 of 2
reducere
Latin · ancient
"to lead back, to bring back"
to lead back, to bring back, from re- (back) and ducere (to lead)
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Stage 2 of 2
reduce
English · 1400s
"to make something smaller in size, amount, or degree"
settled as the English word for making something smaller in size or amount
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