tractus

English

Etymology

Latin tractus

Noun

tractus (plural tractuses or tracti)

  1. (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

  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 extracted, withdrawn, having been extracted or withdrawn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

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

Noun

tractus m (genitive tractūs); fourth declension

  1. drawing, dragging, hauling, pulling
  2. 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

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)

  1. 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
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