Latin

Alternative forms

• *trago (Vulgar Latin)

Verb

trahō ‎(present infinitive trahere, perfect active trāxī, supine tractum); third conjugation

1. I drag.
2. I trail.
3. I extract, withdraw.
4. I plunder, squander.
5. I draw out, prolong.
6. (figuratively) I attract, draw (someone; their attention)
   1. (by extension) I attract the support of, win over.
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1

        Ea tum cura maxime intentos habebat Romanos, non ab ira tantum, quae in nullam unquam ciuitatem iustior fuit, quam quod urbs tam nobilis ac potens, sicut defectione sua traxerat aliquot populos, ita recepta inclinatura rursus animos uidebatur ad ueteris imperii respectum.

        This concern in particular troubled the mindful Romans at the time, not so much because of anger, which has never been more justified against any other city, rather because a city so noble and powerful, in the same way that it had attracted the support of a number of communities by its revolt, was thought would again turn attention back towards respect for the previous government once recaptured.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• tergum
• trāgula

Descendants

References

• traho in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• traho in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “traho”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to trace one's descent from some one: originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere
    
  • to be guided by ambition: laudis studio trahi
    
  • to feel an attraction for study: litterarum studio trahi
    
  • to feel an attraction for study: trahi, ferri ad litteras
    
  • to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere
    

1. ↑ “tract” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).