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, 2025
- “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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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