tractus
English
Etymology
Latin tractus
Noun
tractus (plural tractuses or tracti)
- (anatomy, obsolete) A tract.
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of trahō (“I drag; extract”).
Participle
tractus (feminine tracta, neuter tractum, adverb tractim); first/second-declension participle
- dragged, having been dragged
- trailed, having been trailed
- extracted, withdrawn, having been extracted or withdrawn
- plundered, squandered, having been plundered or squandered
- 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
- Galician: treito
- Italian: tratto
- Portuguese: treito
- → Portuguese: tracto, trato
- Spanish: trecho
- → Portuguese: trecho
Noun
tractus m (genitive tractūs); fourth declension
- drawing, dragging, hauling, pulling
- stretch, tract of land, region
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
- Catalan: tret
- Old French: traiz
- Middle French: trait
- French: trait
- → English: trait
- Middle French: trait
- Friulian: trat
- Galician: treito, tracto (borrowing)
- German: Trakt
- Greek: τρακτέρ n (traktér, “tractor”)
- Italian: tratto
- Ladin: trat
- Occitan: trach
- → Old English: tract, traht
- Middle English: tract, traht
- English: tract
- Middle English: tract, traht
- Portuguese: trato, trecho, treita
- Russian: тракт (trakt)
- Spanish: trecho, tracto (borrowing)
- Welsh: traeth (“beach”) (possibly)
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
Romanian
Noun
tractus n (plural tractusuri)
- Alternative form of tract
Declension
Declension of tractus
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tractus | tractusul | (niște) tractusuri | tractusurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) tractus | tractusului | (unor) tractusuri | tractusurilor |
vocative | tractusule | tractusurilor |