duxit

Duxit is a Latin verb form meaning "he led" or "she led." It is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the verb ducere, which means "to lead" or "to guide." The verb ducere belongs to the third conjugation in Latin grammar. The infinitive is ducere, the present indicative forms include duco, ducis, ducit, and the perfect form is duxi with the past participle ductum, giving duxit for the third-person singular in the perfect tense.

In use, duxit appears in narrative and historical texts to report a completed act of leading by a subject. It is typically followed by a direct object indicating what was led, or by a direct object plus a prepositional phrase clarifying the scope or location of the action. The form is common in Latin prose from the classical period through late antiquity and is frequently encountered in translations and commentaries of historical events.

Example: Duxit exercitum. Translation: He led the army. This illustrates the straightforward past-action meaning of the perfect tense, where the subject performs a completed act of leading.

Related forms include duxi (I led) and duxis-ti (you led) in the respective persons and numbers. The root dux- is also seen in the noun dux, meaning "leader" or "general," which provides the semantic link between the act of leading and the title of leadership.

Duxit is primarily a grammatical form rather than a standalone word in English; it appears in Latin texts as part of the larger verb ducere and its related lexicon.