tracto

Catalan

Verb

tracto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tractar

Interlingua

Noun

tracto (plural tractos)

  1. tract (series of organs)

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From trahō +‎ -tō, frequentative suffix.

Verb

tractō (present infinitive tractāre, perfect active tractāvī, supine tractātum); first conjugation

  1. to tug, drag or haul
  2. to handle, manage, or treat
  3. to exercise, practise, transact or perform
  4. to discuss or debate
Conjugation

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Old French: tretier, traitier, traiter
    • French: traiter
    • Middle Dutch: traiteren, tretieren
    • Middle English: treten
  • Old Piedmontese: traiter
  • Friulian: tratâ
  • Galician: tratar
  • Italian: trattare
  • 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

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tractus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of tractum.

Noun

tractō

  1. 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

Portuguese

Verb

tracto

  1. 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)

  1. tract
  2. a stretch

Derived terms

Further reading