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• /tɹækt/
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• homophone: tracked
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• rhymes with -ækt
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From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.

From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).

From Latin tractāre, from tractō, from trahō + -tō.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: участък (učastǎk) — area
• Catalan: extensió — area
• Dutch: gebied — area
• Finnish: alue — area
• Finnish: ala — area
• Galician: extensión — area
• German: Gebiet — area
• Latin: plaga — area
• Latin: tractus — area
• Norwegian Bokmål: trakt — area
• Portuguese: extensão — area
• Russian: уча́сток (učástok) — area
• Spanish: extensión — area
• Swedish: trakt — area
• Ottoman Turkish: ایل (il) — area
• Ottoman Turkish: طوپراق (toprak) — area
• Ottoman Turkish: ارض (arz) — area
• Ottoman Turkish: تراب (türâb) — area
• Ottoman Turkish: ناحیه (nâhiye) — area
• Arabic: جِهَاز (jihāz) — series of connected body organs
• Azerbaijani: trakt — series of connected body organs
• Bulgarian: тракт (trakt) — series of connected body organs
• Catalan: tracte — series of connected body organs
• Czech: ústrojí — series of connected body organs
• Dutch: kanaal — series of connected body organs
• Dutch: stelsel — series of connected body organs
• Finnish: tie (as in virtsatie) — series of connected body organs
• Finnish: juoste — series of connected body organs
• French: appareil — series of connected body organs
• German: Trakt — series of connected body organs
• Hungarian: traktus — series of connected body organs
• Italian: apparato — series of connected body organs
• Northern Kurdish: cog — series of connected body organs
• Macedonian: провод (provod) — series of connected body organs
• Persian: دستگاه (dastgâh) — series of connected body organs
• Portuguese: aparelho — series of connected body organs
• Russian: тракт (trakt) — series of connected body organs
• Spanish: tracto — series of connected body organs
• Spanish: aparato — series of connected body organs
• Bulgarian: брошура (brošura) — small booklet
• Catalan: fullet — small booklet
• Finnish: kirjanen — small booklet
• Irish: dréacht — small booklet
• Māori: mātārere — small booklet
• Portuguese: panfleto — small booklet
• Russian: брошю́ра (brošúra) — small booklet
• Spanish: folleto — small booklet
• Bulgarian: тракта́т (traktát) — brief treatise
• Catalan: tractat — brief treatise
• Esperanto: traktaĵo — brief treatise
• Finnish: traktaatti — brief treatise
• Finnish: essee — brief treatise
• Finnish: kirjoitus — brief treatise
• German: Traktat — brief treatise
• Irish: dréacht — brief treatise
• Macedonian: расправа (rasprava) — brief treatise
• Norwegian Bokmål: traktat — brief treatise
• Polish: rozprawka — brief treatise
• Portuguese: tratado — brief treatise
• Russian: тракта́т (traktát) — brief treatise
• Spanish: tratado — brief treatise
• Swedish: traktat — brief treatise
• Bulgarian: коментар (komentar) — commentator's view or perspective on a subject
• Finnish: näkökulma — commentator's view or perspective on a subject