traho

• traō (11th century)
• tragō (Early Medieval Latin)

From Proto-Italic *traɣō, seemingly from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull?”), a variation of *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”).

The closest IE cognates are Old Irish tethraig (“ran away, receded”), Middle Welsh treul (“trouble, weakness”) < Proto-Celtic *trāglo-. Possibly connected with Proto-Celtic *tregess (“foot”), Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”), Proto-Slavic *tragъ, but semantically problematic. De Vaan deems a connection with Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to drag, draw”) as formally impossible, but this could be another reflex of a substrate loanword.[1]

Weiss prefers a connection with Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to drag, draw”), under the assumptions that Grassmann's law operated in Latin before liquids so that the resulting initial deaspirated cluster *dr- would then regularly appear as tr- in Latin as it does word-medially.[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.hoː/, [ˈt̪rä(ɦ)oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.o/, [ˈt̪räːo]

trahō (present infinitive trahere, perfect active trāxī, supine tractum); third conjugation

1. to drag, pull

   Synonyms: efferō, portō, ferō, gerō, vehō, addūcō

2. to trail
3. to extract, withdraw
4. to plunder, squander

   Synonyms: dēpraedor, praedor, dīripiō, populor, expugnō, agō

5. to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong

   Synonyms: extendō, distendō, pandō, prōlongō, porrigō, prōferō, explicō, prōtrahō

6. (of time) to protract, drag out, linger

   Synonyms: retardō, moror, cūnctor, tardō, prōtrahō, dubitō, extrahō, differō

   Antonyms: ruō, accurrō, currō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō

7. to weigh, ponder, consider

   Synonyms: cōnsīderō, dubitō, ponderō, pendō, perpendō, dēlīberō, circumspiciō, cōnsultō, putō, reputō, videō

8. (figuratively) to attract, draw (someone; their attention)
9. (by extension) to attract the support of, sway, win over

   Synonyms: persuādeō, convincō, perpellō, flectō, admoneō

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     Ea tum cura maxime intentos habebat Romanos, non ab ira tantum, quae in nullam unquam ciuitatem iustior fuit, quam quod urbs tam nobilis ac potens, sicut defectione sua traxerat aliquot populos, ita recepta inclinatura rursus animos uidebatur ad ueteris imperii respectum.

     This concern in particular troubled the mindful Romans at the time, not so much because of anger, which has never been more justified against any other city, rather because a city so noble and powerful, in the same way that it had attracted the support of a number of communities by its revolt, was thought would again turn attention back towards respect for the previous government once recaptured.

• tergum
• trāgula

• “traho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “traho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• traho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to trace one's descent from some one: originem ab aliquo trahere, ducere
    
  • to be guided by ambition: laudis studio trahi
    
  • to feel an attraction for study: litterarum studio trahi
    
  • to feel an attraction for study: trahi, ferri ad litteras
    
  • to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere