From Latin tractus.

tractus (plural tractuses or tracti)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) A tract.

• cirrus tractus

Perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag; extract”).

tractus (feminine tracta, neuter tractum, adverb tractim); first/second-declension participle

1. dragged, having been dragged
2. trailed, having been trailed
3. extracted, withdrawn, having been extracted or withdrawn
4. plundered, squandered, having been plundered or squandered
5. drawn out, prolonged, having been drawn out or prolonged

First/second-declension adjective.

From trahō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

tractus m (genitive tractūs); fourth declension

1. (abstract) a drawing, dragging, hauling, pulling
2. (concrete) a stretch, tract of land, region

Fourth-declension noun.

• tractuōsus

• “tractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tractus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tractus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

tractus n (plural tractusuri)

1. alternative form of tract

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