tract
English
/tɹækt/
noun
Definitions
- An area or expanse.
- A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
- (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
- (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
- (obsolete) Track; trace.
- (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
Etymology
Derived from Latin tractatus, tractus (dragged, plundered, extracted, pulling, drawing, squandered).
Origin
Latin
tractus
Gloss
dragged, plundered, extracted, pulling, drawing, squandered
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Tractite English
- protract English
- protractable English
- protractest English
- protracteth English
- protractible English
- protractive English
- tractlet English
- tractography English
- tractor English
- tractotomy English
- vocal English
- vocal tract English
- *tractiō Latin
- prōtrahō Latin
- tractare Latin
- tractatus Latin
- tractim Latin
- tractio Latin
- tractionem, tractio Latin
- tractuosus Latin
- tractus Latin
- Trakt German
- Traktat German
- trattato Italian
- tratto Italian
- tract French
- tracto Spanish, Castilian
- trecho Spanish, Castilian
- traktat Norwegian Bokmål
- tragar Portuguese
- trator Portuguese
- trakt Swedish
- trakt Polish
- traktat Norwegian Nynorsk
- trait Old French
- traitié Old French
- tret Catalan, Valencian
- traeth Welsh
- trait Middle French
- treito Old Portuguese
- traptu Aromanian
- trat Friulian
- trat Ladin
- tratat Ladin