tracto
Catalan
Verb
tracto
- first-person singular present indicative of tractar
Interlingua
Noun
tracto (plural tractos)
- tract (series of organs)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrak.toː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪rak.t̪o]
Etymology 1
From trahō + -tō, frequentative suffix.
Verb
tractō (present infinitive tractāre, perfect active tractāvī, supine tractātum); first conjugation
- to tug, drag or haul
- to handle, manage, or treat
- to exercise, practise, transact or perform
- to discuss or debate
Conjugation
Conjugation of tractō (first conjugation)
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old French: tretier, traitier, traiter
- Old Piedmontese: traiter
- Friulian: tratâ
- Galician: tratar
- Italian: trattare
- → Piedmontese: traté
- Occitan: trachar
- Portuguese: trautar, tratar
- Romansch: tertgar, tartgar
- Romanian: trata
- Sicilian: trattari
- Spanish: tratar, trechar
- Venetan: tratar
- → Albanian: trajtoj
- → Catalan: tractar
- → Middle Dutch: tracteren
- → Swedish: traktamente, traktat, traktera
- → Proto-West Germanic: *trahtōn (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2
Inflected form of tractus.
Participle
tractō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tractus
Etymology 3
Inflected form of tractum.
Noun
tractō
- dative/ablative singular of tractum
References
- “tracto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tracto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tracto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- philosophical subjects: quae in philosophia tractantur
- to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
- to govern, administer the state: rem publicam gerere, administrare, regere, tractare, gubernare
- to hold the reins of government: gubernacula rei publicae tractare
- to steer: gubernaculum tractare
- philosophical subjects: quae in philosophia tractantur
Portuguese
Verb
tracto
- first-person singular present indicative of tractar
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tractus. Compare the inherited doublet trecho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾaɡto/ [ˈt̪ɾaɣ̞.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -aɡto
- Syllabification: trac‧to
Noun
tracto m (plural tractos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tracto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024