English Online Dictionary. What means tractor? What does tractor mean?
English
Etymology
Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæktə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæktɚ/
- Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Noun
tractor (plural tractors)
- (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
- (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
- (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
- Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
- (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
- (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
- (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- (aviation): pusher
- (agriculture): traction engine
Verb
tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)
- (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
- (intransitive) To drive a tractor.
- (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
- (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus + the suffix -or.
Noun
tractor m (plural tractores)
- (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəkˈto]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [tɾakˈtoɾ]
Noun
tractor m (plural tractors)
- (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)
Related terms
- treure
Further reading
- “tractor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tractor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tractor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tractor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From English tractor.
Pronunciation
Noun
tractor m (plural tractoren or tractors, diminutive tractortje n)
- tractor (agricultural vehicle)
- Synonym: trekker
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Caribbean Javanese: trèktor, plèktor
Latin
Verb
tractor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō
References
- tractor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Noun
tractor m (plural tractores)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of trator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French tracteur.
Noun
tractor n (plural tractoare)
- tractor
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: trac‧tor
Adjective
tractor (feminine tractora, masculine plural tractores, feminine plural tractoras)
- driving
Noun
tractor m (plural tractores)
- tractor
Related terms
Further reading
- “tractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Welsh
Etymology
From English tractor.
Noun
tractor m (plural tractorau or tractors)
- tractor
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tractor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies