Where does “traceur” come from?
traceur (English) comes from French traceur, from French tracer, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō — to run.
traceur (English): A practitioner of parkour
Definitions
- A practitioner of parkour
Ancestry of “traceur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | traceur | tracer (person who traces), plotter (person who plots a line) |
| 2 | French | tracer | to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out |
| 3 | Old French | tracier | — |
| 4 | Latin | tractiāre | trace, score, delineate |
| 5 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 6 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |