tractus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of trahō (“I drag; extract”).

Participle

tractus (feminine tracta, neuter tractum, adverb tractim); first/second-declension participle

1. dragged, having been dragged
2. trailed, having been trailed
3. extracted, withdrawn, having been extracted or withdrawn
4. plundered, squandered, having been plundered or squandered
5. drawn out, prolonged, having been drawn out or prolonged

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tractus	tracta	tractum		tractī	tractae	tracta
Genitive	tractī	tractae	tractī		tractōrum	tractārum	tractōrum
Dative	tractō		tractō		tractīs
Accusative	tractum	tractam	tractum		tractōs	tractās	tracta
Ablative	tractō	tractā	tractō		tractīs
Vocative	tracte	tracta	tractum		tractī	tractae	tracta

Descendants

• Aromanian: traptu
• Catalan: tret
• French: trait

• Friulian: trat
• Italian: tratto
• Portuguese: treito

Noun

tractus m (genitive tractūs); fourth declension

1. drawing, dragging, hauling, pulling

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tractus	tractūs
Genitive	tractūs	tractuum
Dative	tractuī	tractibus
Accusative	tractum	tractūs
Ablative	tractū	tractibus
Vocative	tractus	tractūs

Descendants

• Albanian: tratjë
• Catalan: tret
• English: tract, trait
• French: trait
• Friulian: trat
• Galician: treito, tracto (borrowing)
• German: Trakt
• Greek: τρακτέρ n (traktér, “tractor”)

• Italian: tratto
• Ladin: trat
• Occitan: trach
• Portuguese: trato, trecho, treita
• Russian: тракт (trakt)
• Spanish: trecho, tracto (borrowing)

References

• “tractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tractus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.