Latin

retraho

‘to drag back, fetch back, bring back a person’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin retraho.

3 English words in this record descend from Latin retraho, most familiar first.

• retreat ← retret ← retrait ← retractus
• retract ← retracten ← retractus
• retraxit

Etymograph / Latin retraho