tractim

Latin

Etymology

From trahō (“drag”) +‎ -tim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtrak.tim/, [ˈt̪räkt̪ɪ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrak.tim/, [ˈt̪räkt̪im]

Adverb

tractim (not comparable)

1. (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)