Where does “atrasar” come from?
atrasar (Spanish) comes from Spanish atrás, from Old Portuguese atras, from Romanian atrage, from Romanian trage, from Vulgar Latin tragere, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō — to run.
atrasar (Spanish): to delay
Ancestry of “atrasar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | atrás | behind; back in time, ago; get back, back off,... |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | atras | — |
| 3 | Romanian | atrage | to attract, draw, lure, entice |
| 4 | Romanian | trage | to pull, draw, drag |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tragere | — |
| 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 |
Words derived from “atrasar”