Where does “retracer” come from?
retracer (French) comes from French tracer, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European tregʰ- — to run.
retracer (French): to recount, to tell; to redraw, to draw again
Definitions
- to recount, to tell; to redraw, to draw again
Ancestry of “retracer”, step by step
retracer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French tracer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | tracer | to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out |
| 2 | Old French | tracier | — |
| 3 | Latin | tractiāre | trace, score, delineate |
| 4 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 5 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |
via Middle French retracier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | retracier | — |