Etymograph

English

traceur

Traceur comes from French traceur ‘tracer, plotter’, from Latin tractum ‘a flock of wool drawn out for spinning’, and ultimately from trahō ‘drag’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘drag’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractum‘a flock of wool drawn out for spinning’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tractiāre‘trace, score, delineate’reconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tracier
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presenttracer‘to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out’
  6. French, derivedc. 1600–presenttraceur‘tracer, plotter’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘drag’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractum‘a flock of wool drawn out for spinning’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tractiāre‘trace, score, delineate’reconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tracier
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presenttracer‘to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out’
  6. French, derivedc. 1600–presenttraceur‘tracer, plotter’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Latin trahō ‘drag’

treat, contract, attractive, portrait, attraction, abstract, extract, distraction, traction, trait, tractor, distract, tract, tram, trattoria, 33 more

Today it means

noun A practitioner of parkour.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin trahō / traceur

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