tractim
Latin
Etymology
From tractus (“dragged”) + -tim.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtrak.tim/, [ˈt̪räkt̪ɪ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtrak.tim/, [ˈt̪räkt̪im]
Adverb
tractim (not comparable)
- (poetic) little by little, by degrees; at length, slowly
References
- “tractim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tractim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- tractim 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)