English
Tractite
From tract + -ite.
Formed from tract + -ite
Latin trahō ‘to drag, pull’
Latin tractus ‘a haul, drawing, a drawing out’
Old English traht ‘a treatise, exposition, commentary, text,…’
Middle English tract ‘a treatise, exposition, commentary’
English tract
Today it means
noun A Tractarian.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tractite