REDUCE Copy link • REDUCETo bring again or back, reducere: redigere: revocare: to reduce a sum to our money, *ad nostrae pecuniae rationem revocare aliquid. To constrain, force, redigere (e.g., ad nihilum, in formam provinciae, in ordinem, etc.). To subdue, vi subjicere: domare: in ditionem redigere. To lessen, bring down, *ad minorem modum redigere (to make smaller): contrahere (to contract): minuere, imminuere. To reduce the price of anything, pretium alicujus rei imminuere: to reduce the price of corn, annonam laxare, levare; pretium frumenti minuere; frugum pretia levare; ex hominum millibus LX. vix ad D., qui arma ferre possent, fere redactos esse dixerunt (Caes., B.G., 2, 28; reduced from sixty thousand to scarce five hundred). To reduce fractions, *fractiones ad minimos numeros reducere (technical term). To reduce a dislocation; Vid: DISLOCATION.