Where does “atraso” come from?
atraso (Spanish) comes from Spanish atrasar, from Spanish atrás, from Old Portuguese atras, from Romanian atrage, from Romanian trage, from Vulgar Latin tragere, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho — to run.
atraso (Spanish): delay, lateness; arrears, arrear
Definitions
- delay, lateness; arrears, arrear
Ancestry of “atraso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | atrasar | to delay |
| 2 | Spanish | atrás | behind; back in time, ago; get back, back off,... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | atras | — |
| 4 | Romanian | atrage | to attract, draw, lure, entice |
| 5 | Romanian | trage | to pull, draw, drag |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | tragere | — |
| 7 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |