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Where does “tracer” come from?

tracer (French) comes 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-, from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ- — to run.

tracer (French): to draw or plot , to trace out; to rule; to buck...

Definitions

  1. to draw or plot , to trace out; to rule; to buck...

Ancestry of “tracer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtracier—
2Latintractiāre—
3Latintractusdragged, having been dragged; trailed, having...
4Latintraheresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
5LatintrahoI drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw
6Proto-Italictraɣō—
7Proto-Indo-Europeantregʰ-to drag, pull?; to run, walk
8Proto-Indo-Europeandʰregʰ-to run

Words derived from “tracer”

  • traceur
  • трасса
  • radiotraceur
  • traceur
  • traçage
  • trace
  • tracé
  • Trasse
  • Stromtrasse
  • traceren
  • траса
  • trasa
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