English edit

Etymology edit

Latin tractus

Noun edit

tractus (plural tractuses or tracti)

  1. (anatomy, obsolete) A tract.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

Participle edit

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 extracted, withdrawn, having been extracted or withdrawn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 edit

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 edit

  • Aromanian: traptu
  • Catalan: tret
  • French: trait
  • Friulian: trat
  • Galician: treito
  • Italian: tratto
  • Portuguese: treito
  • Portuguese: tracto, trato
  • Spanish: trecho

Noun edit

tractus m (genitive tractūs); fourth declension

  1. drawing, dragging, hauling, pulling
  2. stretch, tract of land, region

Declension edit

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 edit

References edit

  • 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 edit

Noun edit

tractus n (plural tractusuri)

  1. Alternative form of tract

Declension edit