intraho

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ˈɪn.tra.(ɦ)oː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈin.tra.o]^[1]

Forms

intrahō (present infinitive intrahere, perfect active intrāxī, supine intractum); third conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin in- + trahō (“to drag”).^[2][1] De Vaan reconstructs ⟨trahō⟩ as Proto-Italic *traxe/o-.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Festus glosses it as “to hurl an insult”, a reading the TLL calls doubtful.^[2][4] Lewis & Short call the sense “to drag along” post-Augustan, citing Apuleius.^[5] Köbler dates Apuleius c. 125–175 AD.^[6]

Semantic evolution

Apuleius has gressūs intrahere “to drag one's steps”, and it also meant to draw on.^[2][5]

Timeline

• c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of dragging the steps.^[2][5][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To drag along, trail.^[2]
2. To draw on.^[5]

Word family

• intractiō

Related words

• abstrahō
• attrahō
• circumtrahō
• contrahō
• dētrahō
• distrahō
• extrahō
• intertrahō
• obtrahō
• pertrahō
• trahō

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de